Colonel Galligan . . .

. . . arrived in this city on the Hawkeye State on Monday evening.  He has resigned his commission.  He is improving in health; his hand, we learn, is partially paralyzed from the effect of the wound received at Pea Ridge

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 9, 1862, p. 1

Col. Galligan

A dispatch in the Chicago Times from St. Lois, states that Col. Galligan has resigned, and is at present in that city.  No confirmatory intelligence has been received in this city, but the report is believed to be true.  Ill health, arising from a bronchial affection, we learn, is the cause of the Col.’s resignation.  We deeply regret to hear of this affliction, and hope Col. G. will soon regain his health under Iowa skies.  He would, in all probability, have been Colonel Dodge’s successor in command of the Fourth regiment had re remained in the service.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 8, 1862, p. 1

The Battle of Pea Ridge

From a letter in the Chicago Tribune, dated Springfield, Mo., March 11, we clip the following:

On Friday the engagement became general, and continued so.  The most exposed position being occupied by Col. Carr’s division, the greatest loss was suffered by them.  Col. Dodge’s brigade, of this division, consists of the Fourth Iowa and First Iowa battery, the Thirty-fifth Illinois, Col. Phelps’s twenty-fourth [sic] Missouri, known as the “Lyon Legion.”  The second brigade commanded by Col Vandever, of the Ninth Iowa, consists of his own regiment, the Dubuque battery, and Col. Carr’s regiment of cavalry.

A letter from Col. Dodge says the losses in the 4^th and 9^th Iowa, the 35^th Illinois and Phelps’ 25^th Missouri are from 150 to 200 to each regiment killed and wounded.  The 12^th and 17^th Missouri, 3d Iowa Cavalry and the 8^th Indiana lost about 40 men each.  The 1^st and 2^nd Iowa batteries lost about 20 each.

Among our wounded are Gen. Asboth, in the arm; Col. Carr, also in the arm; Lt. Col. Galligan of the 4^th Iowa; and Lieut. Col. Herron and Major Coyle of the 9^th Iowa.  Col. Dodge had three horses shot under him.

Lieut. Col. Herron was wounded in the foot and taken prisoner.

Major Black of the 37^th Illinois, wounded in arm.

Lieut. Crittenden, Co. 3, 3d Iowa cavalry, severely wounded.

Major Coyle, 9^th Iowa, in shoulder.

Lieut. Porcher, Co. H. 4^th Iowa, severely wounded in thigh.

Color Sergeant Teale, 4^th Iowa, shot in the arm.

Captain Burger, Co. H. 4^th Iowa, wounded in the head.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862, p. 1

Iowa In The Last Battle

In Gen. Curtis’s army, which so recently defeated Price, as announced yesterday morning, was one and perhaps two Iowa regiments.  The 4^th, Col. Dodge, is with Gen. Curtis, and so is probably the 9^th, Col. Vandever.  Lieut. Col. Galligan, of this city, it will be remembered, is the second officer of the 4^th, and we will no doubt hear a good account of him in that battle.  Besides, we have one company of Davenporters, Capt. Ahlefeldt’s composed to a great extent of the gallant men who so nobly represented Davenport at Wilson’s Creek, and who re-enlisted with Capt. Ahlefeldt, in the brigade of Gen. Osterhaus.  Our young friend, Wm. S. Mackenzie, is a lieutenant in the same brigade, and we believe is also a staff officer.  Lt. Col. Charley Asmusson, of whose safety we are pleased to hear, is in the same brigade.  Beside Capt. Ahlefeldt’s company, there are quite a number of other German-American’s from this place in Missouri regiments, and all very likely in this battle; so it is probable Davenport was more largely represented in the last battle than in any other of the war – not even excepting Fort Donelson.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1862, p. 1