Quite warm and sultry. There isn't any news from the front. There is a force of about two thousand here under command of General Vandev...

How about our Brigadiers? You know I long ago recommended Crocker, Dodge and Perczel and I yet think them among our best colonels as you wi...

Executive Office, Jan. 28, 1861. To Hon. Jas. Harlan, Jas. W. Grimes, Samuel R. Curtis and Wm. Vandever: Gentlemen :—You will fin...

WASHINGTON, May 8. SENATE. – The resolution impeaching Judge Humphreys was read from the House, and referred to a select committee, con...

Mr. Vandever retains his seat in Congress till next session, as will be seen by our telegraphic dispatches.   The House, on motion of Mr. W...

Captain Warren Beckwith , Mt. Pleasant. Enl. Sep. 21, 1861; prom. Adjt. 1st Batt. Dec. 25, 1861; ceased to act (apparently not mustered out...

WASHINGTON, April 1, 1862. ED. HAWK-EYE – Dear Sir: Our great army has a multitude of representatives at the hotels and “all quiet on ...

It is with sorrow we learn that our friend Dripps, of the Maquoketa Excelsior, is among the killed at the battle of Pea Ridge.   The Dubuq...

PEA RIDGE BATTLE GROUND, March 10th, 1862. Gov. S. J. Kirkwood: We have fought a hard battle here, lasting two days; the first day...

WASHINGTON, April 10. SENATE. – The confiscation bill was taken up. Mr. Willey offered an amendment, making an appropriation of five milli...

The Chicago Tribune says that “Congress is made up of lawyers and politicians,” which is true, and worse still, most of them are of the poo...

From a letter in the Chicago Tribune, dated Springfield, Mo., March 11, we clip the following: On Friday the engagement became general, a...

Gen. Sigel commands two divisions, viz: His own (the first) and Gen. Asboth’s (the second) divisions.  The third division is under Gen. Davi...

A Washington letter in the Oskaloosa Herald says the committee on elections have unanimously agreed to report that Hon. Wm. Vandever is no...

WASHINGTON, May 9, 1862 It has been the subject of much fear that the national arms might fall in consequence of so large a proportion of i...

Brevet Major General

WILLIAM VANDEVER was born in Baltimore, Maryland, March 31, 1817. He was educated in the schools of Philadelphia. In 1839 he went to Rock Is...

The ten companies of the Ninth Regiment of Iowa Volunteer Infantry were ordered by the Governor to rendezvous at Dubuque, as part of the quo...

FIRST COLONEL, NINTH INFANTRY. Of General Vandever's early history I have been able to learn but little. I do not even know his native S...