The 58th Illinois, 8th, 12th and 14th Iowa regiments have
been brigaded together and will act as one regiment until further orders of
Brig. Gen. Davies. Capt. Healy, of the
58th Ills., is the acting Colonel; Capt. Fanton, of the 12th Iowa, Lieut.
Colonel; Capt. Kettle, 58th Ills., Major; 1st Lieut. S. E. Rankin, 8th Iowa,
Adjutant. The 58th Ills. is divided in
to three companies, A, D and F. The 8th
Iowa into three companies, I, C and H.
The 12th Iowa into one company, K.
The 14th Iowa into three companies, E. G and B. This general order, it is said, has caused
much excitement among Iowa troops.
– Published in The
Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, May 8, 1862, p.
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EDITORS NOTE: I believe "Capt. Fanton" to be John G.
Fowler, of Company K, 12th Iowa, Infantry, as the following paragraph appears on page 271 in Henry Lamson Boies’ History of De Kalb
County, Illinois:
“Following the fight at Shiloh, the shattered remnant of the
58th was united with similar fragments of the 8th, the 12th and the 14th Iowa,
and called the Union brigade. Three captains, G. W. Kittell and R. W. Healy, of
the 58th, and Captain Fowler of the 12th Iowa were detailed to serve as field
officers.”
