THIRTY-SECOND INFANTRY. John Scott, the commander of the Union forces at Blue Mills, Missouri, and one of the chief heroes at the battle of ...

SECOND COLONEL, TWENTY-EIGHTH INFANTRY. John Connell is a Scotchman by birth. Scotland has two sons, who have been honored with colonel'...

COLONEL TWENTY-SEVENTH INFANTBY. James I. Gilbert is one of Iowa's best officers. He is a native of Kentucky, and was born about the yea...