STATE OF Iowa, ADJUTANT GENERAL’s Office February 19th, 1862. HON. Rush CLARK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. SIR: I ...

CAIRO, Man 28. – The river is still rising.   Six feet more will sweep over Fort Holt. All kinds of reports are in circulation this eve...

No. 21. Report of Col. William T. Shaw, Fourteenth Iowa Infantry. ANAMOSA, IOWA, October 26 , 1862 . SIR: As by the terms of...

No. 20. Report of Col. Joseph J. Woods, Twelfth Iowa Infantry. MAQUOKETA, JACKSON COUNTY, IOWA, April —, 1862 . On the morni...

Colonel Joseph Jackson Woods was born in Brown County, Ohio, January 11, 1823; was appointed to West Point Military Academy in June 1843, to...

TWELFTH INFANTRY. J. J. Woods, of the 12th Iowa Infantry, has a checkered history, which will be read with interest. He is a native of Ohio,...