List of sick and wounded on board the steamer Jennie Whipple . . .

. . . from the Hospitals at Keokuk and St. Louis:

John Iback, co K, 5th Iowa; Geo. Sullers, Co E, 5th Iowa; N H Smith, Co I, 5th Iowa; H C Rouse, co C, 10th Iowa; N. Tilliam, co C, 10th Iowa; B Dunbar, co C, 10th Iowa; G Gufford, co C, 10th Iowa; – Cora, Co A, 10th Iowa; C G Bailey, co A, 10th Iowa; – Clemmers, co A, 5th Iowa; Benton Ayers, co A, 5th Iowa; C J Boles, co K, 5th Iowa; C L Holcomb, co F, 10th Iowa; S Shockly, co B, 10th Iowa; J Ricer, co I, 10th Iowa – Haller, co F, 5th Iowa; – Brassfield, co F, 2d Iowa cav.; E Estebrook, co F, 2d Iowa cav.

Also, Lieut M P Benton, co F, 8th Iowa, wife in attendance; Capt. J. B. Hawley, co H; 45th Illinois, wife in attendance; Lieut. G. F. Vail, co K, 16th Wisconsin, brother in attendance; also corpse of private Andrew Pye, 23d Missouri.

And now a touching incident: Miss Annie B___ of Davenport, came down with us from Davenport, expecting to meet her betrothed, one of Iowa’s brave patriots, one of those brave Iowans, who have proved such heroes in our late victorious battles, Corporal J. S. Christian. Poor fellow, he died at the Hospital at Keokuk but yesterday, too soon for the loved ones to meet in life. He had left the boat this morning but a short time, when the corpse was brought on board. She now accompanies the illustrious dead to the hearth that was soon to make her a wife. We all feel that we cannot honor this loving and devoted woman too much.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

We were shown a fine specimen . . .

. . . of sugar made from the box elder which abounds in this county. It was made by Mr. Picket, of Bear Grove, and is superior in grain to anything we ever saw made from the tree. In sweetness and flavor it is equal to the common maple sugar, and as the box elder is nothing more than the ash-leaved maple, can be called maple sugar itself. Wouldn’t it pay for farmers to make their [own] sugar from this tree. – {Guthrie Gazette.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

Polygamy Abolished

The lower house of Congress has passed a bill, by a large majority, prohibiting polygamy in all the Territories, and repealing the laws of Utah on that subject.

This the Mormons will regard as striking at the principle of “popular sovereignty” with a vengeance, and we may have another rebellion on our hands in that quarter.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

New Paper

A new paper of the Democratic persuasion, with “conservative” instincts, is about to be started in Burlington, coming forth from the ashes of the defunct Gazette. It is to be printed Daily and Weekly and christened THE ARGUS. The enterprising individuals who have the newspaper in charge, are both strangers in Burlington. They are G. W. Todd, late of a Des Moines paper, and A. P. Bentley of the Bloomfield Clarion. What the character of the Argus will be we, and the public, can judge better when we see it.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

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The following names of the killed and wounded . . .

. . . are given in Lieut. Col. Moss’ official report of a scouting expedition, organized April 13th, and composed of companies D and K, 1st Iowa Cavalry, which [succeeded] in destroying a roving band of rebels in Vernon county, Mo., killing among others, the notorious Dan Henley, the wild [Irishman] of St. Clair and Vernon counties:

Killed – Privates Jas. Whitford, and Oscar Crumb.

Wounded – Sergt. Jas. Lyon, co. K, in shoulder, severely; Privates Thos. Tupper, co. K, severely; Enoch Shannon, co. D, severely; Jacob Harsh, co. D, slightly.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

Ex-Governor Stewart of Missouri . . .

. . . who is a candidate for Congress in the St. Joe district is out in favor of emancipation – yes – EMANCIPATION! He avows himself in favor of abolishing slavery in Missouri. Is not this perfectly awful? Gov. Stewart was the last loyal Governor of Missouri – was nominated and elected as a Democrat. Is it not most remarkable that a Democrat, of so high position and standing, whose fidelity was above suspicion, should have fallen into the slough of fanaticism and Abolitionism! Father Mahoney should make haste to fulminate a [bill] of excommunication against him and send it down to Missouri by the hand of his faithful esquire, the dignified, the respectable, the pious, white cravated Hendershot of Wepello. This last person, when he comes in sight of the recusant ex-governor, should be instructed to put on his most killing and withering look, crying with a loud voice Abolitionist! ABOLITIONIST!! ABOLITIONIST!!! If he can stand this the case is past the reach of surgery – put him out!

But suppose that this fanaticism which seems to be catching, should break out in Missouri, as in Western Virginia – suppose that a majority of the people of that State should declare against slavery and should abolish it, what will be the effect? Evidently the Union can never be restored just as it was. Never. And the resurrectionists say they never will accept the Union unless it is restored just as it was! Here is a complication.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

14th Iowa Infantry Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

IOWA
TO HER

14TH INFANTRY.
TUTTLE’S (1ST) BRIGADE
W. H. L. WALLACE’S (2D) DIVISION.
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

IOWA
14TH REGIMENT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS
COMMANDED BY COL. W. T. SHAW

THIS REGIMENT (SEVEN COMPANIES), HELD THIS POSITION AGAINST REPEATED ATTACKS FROM 9 A.M. UNTIL 4 P.M., APRIL 6, 1862.

IN ATTEMPTING TO FOLLOW THE REST OF THE BRIGADE, WHICH WAS BEING WITHDRAWN, IT BECAME HOTLY ENGAGED ABOUT 200 YARDS EAST OF THIS POSITION. REPULSING THIS ATTACK IT CONTINUED TO RETIRE TOWARDS THE HAMBURG ROAD, FIGHTING HEAVILY. REACHING THE CAMP OF THE 32D ILLINOIS INFANTRY IT FOUND ITSELF ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY THE JUNCTION OF THE CONFEDERATE RIGHT AND LEFT WINGS. IT WAS CAPTURED ABOUT 6 P.M.

PRESENT FOR DUTY, INCLUDING MUSICIANS, TEAMSTERS, ETC., 442.

ITS LOSS WAS, KILLED 8 MEN; WOUNDED 2 OFFICERS AND 37 MEN; CAPTURED 15 OFFICERS AND 211 MEN; TOTAL 273.

OF THE WOUNDED, 5 DIED OF THEIR WOUNDS; OF THE CAPTURED, 15 DIED IN PRISON.


See Also:

• Dedication Exercises at the 14th Iowa Regimental Monument
• The Iowa Monuments At Shiloh National Military Park
• Official Report of William T. Shaw
• Iowa Colonels and Regiments: William T. Shaw

It is a fact . . .

. . . in the highest degree creditable, that at the breaking out of the rebellion, the great majority of the Democratic party in the free States proved loyal and patriotic and rushed to arms, shoulder to shoulder with the Republicans, to save the Union and preserve the Government, resolving to bury all past differences and party platforms, until Rebellion should be put down. The Republican Administration met this creditable display of patriotism with a magnanimity never before exhibited by any party. Mr. Lincoln gave to his defeated adversaries a seat in his Cabinet and a moiety of the appointments. Half the army appointments, at least, including those of the highest grade, have been bestowed upon loyal Democrats. Loyal Democrats have been trusted, consulted and honored. Look at the appointments of Judge Holt, Andy Johnson, Dix, Halleck, McClellan, &c., &c. These loyal Democrats have been as implicitly trusted and as willingly honored and promoted, when deserving it, as Republicans. – And they are to-day giving their support to the Administration, without reserve, as heartily as the Republicans themselves. The resurrection movement is not from them and has not their countenance or support. They have no wish to divide and distract the country upon a new partisan issue. It could do no possible good and might do much evil. The movement is not by or through them, and is not dictated by loyal or patriotic motives. It comes from the riff-raff of the old Democratic party, stimulated by the treasonable secret society known as the “K. G. C.’s” at the bottom of the Rebellion itself. It is championed by men of doubtful loyalty and depraved and despicable character, whose personal labors have been directed to discouraging the war, breaking down the patriotic sentiment of the people and discouraging the payment of taxes. They are now organizing an anti-war party, clothing it in the livery of Democracy, in order to service the Devil of Secession. They are doing the work of Jeff. Davis as openly as they dare.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

We are sorry to see the effort making in several quarters . . .

. . . by the press in the interest of General McClellan, to charge his tardiness and the apparent want of vigor – his failure to fill the public expectation – upon other parties, and to causes other than the true one. Gen. McClellan’s plans have been interfered with and his strategy defeated – his army has been divided, troops have been withheld, &c., &c., by the Secretary of War and the President. So say the partisans of Gen. McClellan. As we understand it McClellan has one-third more troops than McDowell and Banks, combined – has chosen his own route to Richmond, and is progressing in his own way, aided by the federal iron clad gunboats, vessels of war and transports. That he has chosen the hardest and worst route is his fault – that he makes no progress can hardly be charged upon the Secretary of War or the President. Gen. Banks, with less than one-third his force is making his way to the Rebel Capital – overcoming all obstacles and driving the enemy before him. General McDowell’s small army, although but one-third as large as McClellan’s, has been reduced to reinforce the army at Yorktown – het McDowell is progressing. Our forces in every quarter and under every General in the field, save only General McClellan, are striking heavy and telling blows, which are fast destroying the rebellion. With the largest, best armed and best disciplined of all our armies, McClellan alone, of all our commanders, has not yet struck a blow. His friends, in charging his failure upon those who have kept him in command against the wish of Congress and the country, show base ingratitude and partisanship.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

Edwin M. Stanton to Andrew Johnson, April 10, 1862

WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, April 10, 1862.

Governor ANDREW JOHNSON, Nashville, Tenn.:

There has been unavoidable delay in fixing a proper place for your prisoners. You will send them to Detroit under guard with directions to turn them over to Captain Gibbs, in command there. They will be sent from there to Fort Mackinac, on Lake Huron. I rejoice at your energy and fair prospects.

EDWIN M. STANTON,
Secretary of War.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 438

Lorenzo Thomas to Carlos A. Waite, April 10, 1862

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, April 10, 1862.

Col. C. A. WAITE, U.S. Army, Plattsburg, N. Y.:

The Secretary of War directs you to order one of the companies Third Cavalry now at Detroit to reoccupy Fort Mackinac. Instruct the commanding officer to receive and guard all prisoners of state sent to him from Tennessee.

L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 438

Lorenzo Thomas to Carlos A. Waite, April 14, 1862

ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, April 14, 1862.

Col. C. A. WAITE, U. S. Army, Plattsburg, N. Y.:

The Secretary of War directs yon to proceed to Mackinac to arrange for the custody of state prisoners of war to be sent there from Tennessee. A company of volunteers goes there from Detroit.

L. THOMAS,
Adjutant- General.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 451

Grover S. Wormer to William Hoffman, May 15, 1862

Fort Mackinac, May 15, 1862.

Col. WILLIAM HOFFMAN, U. S. Army,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Detroit.

DEAR SIR: I have been placed in command of this post with my company, Stanton Guards, for the purpose of guarding this post and state prisoners of war. I received per orders of Col. J. E. Smith, U. S. Army, Messrs. Barrow, Guild and Harding as prisoners of war. I would like some instructions in regard to the liberty, &c., that I am to extend to them. Col. C. A. Waite, U. S. Army, informs me that I am to receive my instructions from you.

Your obedient servant,

G. S. WORMER,
Captain, Commanding Stanton Guards.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 537

William Hoffman to Grover S. Wormer, May 24, 1862

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Detroit, Mich., May 24 1862.

Capt. G. S. WORMER, Commanding Fort Mackinac, Mich.

CAPTAIN: In reply to your letter of the 15th instant asking for instructions in relation to the prisoners of war in your charge I have to say that you may permit [them] to walk about the island as often during the week as the post surgeon may think necessary for their health, not oftener than every other day, provided they pledge themselves to hold no communication with any person whatever verbally or in writing nor to go beyond the limits you prescribe, and further that they will make no attempt directly or indirectly to escape.

You will limit the time during which they maybe absent from the fort to not over three hours per day. You may permit them to write and receive letters subject to your inspection to see that they contain nothing which it would be improper for a good loyal citizen to write, and you may allow them to receive books and newspapers. These privileges will be withheld for any improper conduct on the part of the prisoners. Any money sent to them by their friends must be held in your hands subject to their checks for such purchases as they may make. Give them receipts for any money you may retain and keep their accounts in a book subject to my inspection. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,
Lieut. Col. Eighth Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 591-2

William Hoffman to Grover S. Wormer, May 26, 1862

OFFICE COMMISSARY-GENERAL OF PRISONERS,
Detroit, Mich., May 26, 1862.

Capt. G. S. WORMER, Commanding Fort Mackinac, Mich.

CAPTAIN: I think it advisable to add some further instructions to those given in my letter of the 24th instant. You should in the first place put your company in a perfect state of instruction and discipline by at least two — better three — drills a day, and by a close observance of all the garrison duties laid down in the Army Regulations. The duties prescribed for guards should be particularly observed and in every detail the Regulations should be as clearly adhered to as possible. From guard mounting until sunset the prisoners under your charge may have the limits of the interior of the fort, but during the remainder of the day (twenty-four hours) they must be confined to their quarters under surveillance of the guard, with such orders as to insure their safety. Until arrangements are perfected for their messing in their own quarters you will make such provisions for them as may be convenient consistent with their safety. When cooking utensils are furnished on the estimates already forwarded you may permit them to hire a man to cook for them who must give satisfactory evidence of his loyalty. Direct your quartermaster to purchase such cheap table furniture as may be absolutely necessary for their use. Permit them to purchase for themselves what articles for the table or furniture they please, but not liquors of any kind. While the prisoners are granted the freedom of the fort during the day they must be on their parole of honor not to attempt to escape nor to violate any rule you may prescribe for them. Withhold from them privileges of all kinds unless your orders are strictly complied with. Report to me by letter twice a month, on the 15th and the last day, the state of things at your post.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

W. HOFFMAN,
Lieut. Col. Eighth Infantry, Commissary-General of Prisoners.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 598-9

Grover S. Wormer to William Hoffman, June 3, 1862

Fort Mackinac, [Mich.,] June 3,1862.

Col. W. HOFFMAN, U. S. Army,
Commissary-General of Prisoners, Detroit, Mich,

COLONEL: Yours of the 24th and 26th came duly to hand and contents noted. Your instructions shall be strictly adhered to and carried out. The prisoners which I have in my charge are Washington Barrow, William G. Harding and Joseph C. Guild, state prisoners of war sent from Tennessee. On my arrival here from Detroit I allowed them to go to the hotel to board and lodge, under guard of one sergeant and three men (and on parole), who guarded the house both day and night, and when they took a walk about the island they always went with them. About ten days ago their quarters were completed and since that time I have had them sleep and remain in the fort except to go to their meals, which I gave them one and a half hours to walk and take, which is equal to four and a half hours per day. They are always guarded by three armed men. I have received a cooking stove for the prisoners' quarters without furniture, not even a spider. I have this day bought what furniture will answer them, also some cheap table furniture, and will have the prisoners live in their quarters this week. They are very anxious to know whether they will be permitted to have their families here, which you will see by the inclosed note* addressed to me. I will write. I will do as you desired.

I remain, your obedient servant,

G. S. WORMER, Captain, Commanding Post.

* Not found.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 636

Carlos A. Waite to Lorenzo Thomas, June 3, 1862

DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS, Plattsburg, N.Y., June 3, 1862.

General L. THOMAS,
Adjutant-General U.S. Army, Washington.

SIR: I have the honor to report that in compliance with the directions of the Secretary of War contained in a telegram (without date) received from you on the 15th of April last I have visited Fort Mackinac and made arrangements for the reception and safe-keeping of some fourteen or fifteen state prisoners of war. Two one-story buildings have been selected for their quarters. One was formerly used as a hospital and the other as quarters for officers. A hasty sketch† of the ground floor of these buildings herewith inclosed will show the space allowed for their accommodation. I also inclose a copy of my instructions to Captain Wormer, the officer in command of Fort Mackinac.

I am, general, with much respect, your obedient servant,

C. A. WAITE,
Colonel of First Infantry.

† Not found.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 634-5

Carlos A. Waite to Grover S. Wormer, May 25, 1862

FORT MACKINAC, May 25, 1862.

Capt. G. S. WORMER, Commanding Post of Fort Mackinac.

SIR: In addition to the ordinary duties of commanding officer of Fort Mackinac you are charged with the duty of guarding and safe-keeping Washington Barrow, William G. Harding and Joseph C Guild, citizens of Tennessee, state prisoners of war, now under your control, and it is enjoined upon you to adopt all such measures as may be necessary to retain these persons in your custody. For this purpose the company of volunteers under your command were mustered into the service of the United States. It is presumed that Colonel Hoffman, U.S. Army, commissary-general of prisoners, will give you all necessary instructions in relation to the manner the prisoners are to be treated, the restrictions to be placed on their intercourse with citizens, either personal or through the mail, and the liberty that may be allowed them to take exercise, &c.

I am, captain, with much respect, your obedient servant,

C. A. WAITE,
Colonel of First Infantry, Commanding District.

SOURCE: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies During the War of the Rebellion, Series II, Volume 3, p. 635

1st Minnesota Battery Light Artillery Monument: The Hornet's Nest, Shiloh National Military Park

MINNESOTA


FIRST MINNESOTA BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY
CAPT. EMIL MUNCH
BRIG. GEN. B. M. PRENTISS’ DIVISION
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

ENGAGED FROM EARLY IN THE MORNING, WHEN CAPT. MUNCH WAS WOUNDED AND DISABLED, IN THE FIRST DAY’S BATTLE OF SHILOH, APRIL 6, 1862. THE RIGHT AND LEFT SECTIONS UNDER COMMAND OF 1ST LIEUT. WILLIAM PFAENDER PARTICIPATED IN THE STRUGGLE OF THE “HORNET’S NEST” WHERE THIS MONUMENT STANDS. THE TWO GUNS OF THE CENTER SECTION WERE DISABLED EARLY IN THE DAY, BUT ONE OF THEM TOOK PART IN THE EVENING IN REPELLING THE LAST CHARGE OF THE CONFEDERATES. CAPT. E. MUNCH AND 1ST LIEUT. F. E. PEEBLES WOUNDED; THREE MEN KILLED AND SIX MEN WOUNDED.

A Brave Regiment

The 44th Indiana Volunteers, Colonel H. B. Reed, of Fort Wayne, acted a conspicuous part in the battle of Pittsburg Landing. They were in Gen. Lauman’s Brigade. They went into battle about 8 o’clock Sunday Morning, and after fighting all day rested on their arms during the night in a pelting rain without food or shelter. At 10 o’clock Sunday morning they were marched in support of Sherman’s Division and aided in driving the rebels from the field. During Sunday and Monday they fired over one hundred and sixty rounds of cartridges. At the close of his official report, addressed to Gen. Lauman, Col. Reed makes the following mention of the bravery of that officer, and of General Hurlbut commanding the Division:

“I cannot refrain from giving expression to my admiration of, and bearing testimony to the noble heroic manner in Which Gen. Hurlbut and yourself exposed your lives in your constant and unwearied efforts. Both of you were at all times to be seen at your posts directing the battle. No Generals, in my opinion, ever conducted a fight with greater ability or more bravery.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2

Review: War Like the Thunderbolt

War Like The Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta
By Russell S. Bonds

In the introduction to his book, “Causes Won, Lost & Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War,” Gary Gallagher states that “More people have formed perceptions about the Civil War from watching ‘Gone With The Wind’ than from reading all the books written since Selznick’s blockbuster debuted in 1939.” While that is certainly true, it is even more so when talking about the fall and burning of Atlanta. So it seems only logical that author Russell S. Bonds, should choose to start the preface of his book, “War Like The Thunderbolt: The Battle and Burning of Atlanta”, with the filming of the burning of Atlanta for “Gone with the Wind.” Thus even before turning the first page of his magnificent tome, Mr. Bonds has succeeded resetting his readers expectations.

Though Mr. Bonds does an excellent job summarizing Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, “War Like The Thunderbolt,” is not a blow by blow account of that campaign, its battles or the military movements thereof, but instead, it is a sweeping narrative of the history of Atlanta, limited in its scope to the events in and around that embattled city from July to October of 1864.

The author also peppers the beginning of his narrative with brief biographical sketches of all the prominent players in the drama about to unfold, most notably William Tecumseh Sherman, Joseph E. Johnston and John Bell Hood. Once again Mr. Bonds has pushed his readers reset buttons, as he gives them a great analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of each, and does not fall into the preconceptions of previous historians, but instead, he lets his readers come to their own conclusions.

The narrative of the battles around Atlanta is fair and balanced, and again Mr. Bonds declines to pass judgment on those events or their outcomes, but rather he gives the reader all the information they need to know to make their own judgments.

The heart of Mr. Bonds’ book is the city of Atlanta, so much so it is nearly a character itself. Even as Sherman’s army closes in around it, his narrative finger is always on the pulse of the city and what is happening within it. The author follows the city and its citizens closely during its siege and fall, its occupation, the expulsion of its citizens and its burning. Even after its near total destruction, and desertion by both armies, and in fact the end of the war itself, Mr. Bonds does not forget about Atlanta. Though its pulse was quieted in 1864 it was never completely gone. The city survived and in his final chapter Mr. Bonds tells of its recovery and rebirth.

Mr. Bonds, a lawyer in Atlanta, closes his book with a brief “Author’s Note: Atlanta’s Lost Battlefields” which ends with a bit of advice for his readers who may find themselves driving up and down Tara Boulevard in Jonesboro looking for the home of Scarlett O’Hara, “It’s not there, and never was.”

ISBN 978-1594161001, Westholme Publishing, © 2009, Hardcover, 544 pages, Photographs, Illustrations, Maps, Appendices, End Notes, Bibliography & Index, $29.95

Local Matters

RAIN. – Saturday evening we had the hardest rain of the week, which it was hoped would be the winding up shower of this spell of weather.

VETOED. – Subsequent to the adjournment of the Legislature, the Governor vetoed the bill providing for a reduction of salary, and the City Charter and University bills.

RAILROAD TIME TABLE. - The railroad superintendents were in session at New York last week to arrange the spring and summer time-table. The New tables will probably go into effect before the 1st of May.

DAVENPORT TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION. – A meeting of the Union will be held at the office of the Democrat & News, on Monday evening, April 14th, at 7 o’clock. All printers are requested to be present. By order of the President.

TWENTY little ladies met at the house of the editor Saturday, and scraped lint all the afternoon for our wounded soldiers. At these little sociable gatherings there is always great rivalry between the tongues and fingers of the young ladies.

PERSONALITIES. – We do like a good argument and a fair opponent, but for such personalities as ‘bully’ George of the Democrat treated the readers of that sheet on Saturday we have no stomach. We repeat all we said before, which is sufficient reply to his characteristic slang.

SHADE TREES. – Dr. Burtis set out, on Saturday, a number of shade trees, of elm, maple and mulberry. He has planted them in front of the lot, which he has recently purchased, in the rear of the Burtis House, on the corner of fourth and Iowa streets. Who will repeat the same experiment elsewhere?

WEATHER AND CROPS. – We have had a week of the most gloomy weather experienced her for many long months. Our farmers are disposed to complain at the poor prospects for good crops, but it is by no means too late yet to plow and sow wheat, and a few days of warm sunshine will put the ground in condition for cultivating. There have been seasons later than this, in which our farmers have raised good crops.

LAST WEEK was the dullest, gloomiest most anxious week our citizens have experienced for a long time. It was dull, because the rain and mud laid an embargo on farmers getting into town with their produce and citizens generally from doing their customary trading. Gloomy because cloudy or rainy all the time. The sun, we believe, didn’t show its face two consecutive hours during the whole week. Anxious because all were desirous to hear from our brave boys who had participated in the battle at Pittsburg.

FOR CALIFORNIA. – Mr. Chellison, of Ohio, has at the Pennsylvania House stable thirty-five horses, which he brought from Ohio with him recently. They are all fine, handsome animals, and are intended fro the California market Mr. C. takes a drove of horses over the plains every year, and will start soon with these horses and a lot of mules across this state and Nebraska for the same direction. He has usually crossed through Kansas, but last summer he narrowly escaped having his horses jayhawked, and he consequently comes this way now.

MARRIED. On the 9th inst., by Rev. I. N. BUTTERFIELD, Mr. SYLVESTER M. CLOSE and Miss EMMA M. BLACKMAN, all of this city.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 1

Home Traitors

A disposition was manifested by a few on the streets Saturday, to construe the victory at Pittsburg into a defeat. We have those among us, and it is a sad reflection on human nature, who in their hearts would have rejoiced had our troops been repulsed in that engagement. All over the North there are sympathizers with treason, and had the rebels been successful in establishing at the South a slave oligarchy, thousands would have left the North to enroll themselves under a government more suited to their depraved ideas. We have seen such in our city, though we cannot believe the number very large, but that there are such every word and action betrays it. It is a pity that these men could not have been singled out and placed in the Van of our regiments, and been forced for once to do duty to the country and the flag they so openly insult.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 1

Telegraph Up The Tennessee

We learn that a telegraph line was completed on Friday last to Savannah, on the Tennessee river. This brings us about twenty-four hours nearer the scene of the great battle than before – an important reduction of space in this time of general anxiety and suspense.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 1

Scott County . . .

. . . has six hundred men in the army ready to do and die for their country. – Des Moines Register.

Nearer one thousand, friend Palmer. She had almost six hundred in the battle at Pittsburg.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 14, 1862, p. 1

How Napoleon I Conciliated The Rebels

When, seventy years ago, the Roman people assisted by the French, threw off the yoke of their miserable government and proclaimed the Republic, a great many malcontents, mostly of the aristocratic classes, south refuge in the mountain passes of the Apennines – gathered around them bands of armed outlaws and bandits, and commenced a predatory warfare against the republicans and their French allies. They committed for a long time all kinds of outrages, arson, rapine and murder. The French troops sent against them were waylaid and shot down from behind bushes, or inaccessible mountain gorges; travelers were plundered and murdered, and the whole country devastated. At last the matter was laid before Napoleon, at that time commander-in-chief of the French troops in Italy, and he issued the following orders:

1. All outlaws, couth with arms in hand, assaulting our troops or peaceable citizens, are immediately to be shot, without trial.

2. All dwellings, from which our troops have been fired on, to be burnt down; of the inhabitants, if they cannot prove their innocence beyond a doubt, the males over twenty years of age be sent to the gallows, the females to our hospitals as nurses, washerwomen, etc., the children to the house of refuge.

3. For every civilian murdered, the district in which the crime is committed pays 5,000 francs: for every soldier, double the amount; besides reimbursements for all that is plundered. The money to be taken firstly from the avowed malcontents; if not sufficient, then from the so-called neutrals, and lastly from the loyal citizens, whose cowardice permits such outrages.

One short month after these orders were passed, and about a dozen instances promptly executed, order was restored, and the Roman Republic soon became known as a peaceable – and safe country.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Governor Johnson Ships The Taitors North

Captain C. H. Wood, of the Fifty-first Ohio, with a squad of four men, arrived in the city this morning from Nashville, having in charge Gen. Washington Barrow and Gen. Wm. G. Harding, of Nashville, of Nashville, and Col. Joseph C. Guild, of Gallatin, three members of the Tennessee Military board, who were arrested by the command of Gov. Johnson, and ordered to be sent North for safe keeping. Gen. Barrow was Minister to Portugal during Fillmore’s administration, we believe. He is at present a member of the State Legislature of Tennessee, is a very prominent and influential citizen, and was particularly zealous as one of the vigilance committee at Nashville in arresting and sending North at the breaking out of the rebellion, all persons obnoxious to the Confederate Government! Under his auspices, Mr. Pearl, of this city, was summarily ejected from his home. The latter gentleman called upon the party at the Michigan Exchange, on learning of their arrival, expressed his pleasure at meeting them here, and assured them that a residence of six months with us had convinced him that Northerners were a very pleasant, hospitable race, and not nearly so bad as they had been represented to be.

Gen. Harding belongs to one of the most wealthy and aristocratic families of Tennessee. Possessing an ample fortune in his own right, it has received large accessions by marriage, and the General lives in a style that equals the blooded aristocracy of old England. With ample leisure to devote to the interests of the Southern Government, he has made himself one of the foremost of its leaders, and occupies one of the very first positions in point of influence in his State. Col. Guild is scarcely less distinguished and occupies a prominent place among the leaders in his state.

Gen. [sic] Johnson could not have arrested three men in the State of Tennessee, whose absence would cause such a vacancy in the ranks of the secessionists. They will be confined in Fort Wayne until further orders. During the forenoon large numbers of our citizens visited the Michigan Exchange, anxious to get a view of a live secession leader. The gentlemen, however were not on exhibition, and very few were favored with an audience. They will probably be immediately sent by Col. Smith, to whom their guard was ordered to report, to Fort Wayne. – {Detroit Free Press.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

The Senior Editor of the Cedar Falls Gazette . . .

. . . happened to be in Dubuque on the day of the Charter election in that place. The Gazette gives some of his experiences in that Godless village:

“Our Senior was in Dubuque on Monday (Election Day.) He says that while walking up Main street he met a party of “Democrats,” crazy with liquor. The party were passing a saloon when one of the members suggested that they go in and take a drink. “No,” said one of the number, “not here this is a d----d abolition hole – let’s go down to ____.” They started on, when it was proposed that they return and give three cheers for Jeff. Davis. – The suggestion was promptly accepted and the party retraced their steps to the front of the saloon, and there, in the city of Dubuque, on Main Street, raised their hellish, treasonable shouts for Jeff. Davis and the Southern Confederacy! We could not believe the reports of the doings in that city as brought us by the Times, until they were corroborated by our partner, who saw with his own eyes and heard with his own ears! Talk about regard for the Union and the Constitution! For such men as carried the municipal election of Dubuque on the 7th inst., it is simply blasphemous! We have lost all faith in those who lead the Democracy of Dubuque. The scenes enacted on Monday in that city are a burning disgrace not only to the city itself, but to the whole United States.”

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Business Prospects For The Summer

Some of the timid ones are fearful of a general stagnation of business after the first of May. They reason that the provisions of the tax bill are soon to go into effect on articles manufactured after that time, and that dealers of every kind are laying in large stocks in anticipation. Consequently business will come to a dead stand after the tax bill is in force. But such a conclusion is a very fallacious one. It must be remembered that people will need food to eat and clothes to wear, taxes or no taxes; and everybody has been living for the past year on the most economical plan, and under the general buoyancy of feeling occasioned by our recent victories, they will be more disposed to spend money than they have for sometime past, unless – which is not likely – we meet with some sudden and severe reverses. This will make the retail trade lively, and the small traders will soon dispose of the stock they may have accumulated in anticipation of the tax. – They in turn will call on the wholesale merchants again, and thus the circuit will be continued, the people will pass from the untaxed into the taxed condition of things, as easily and unconsciously as a river glides into the ocean, and there will be no break in the stream of commercial intercourse. And again; the trade with the South will soon be very considerable. The inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee are already renewing their business connection with the North, and we are among those who believe the rebellion will soon be so thoroughly put down that the whole South will be opened to trade before another winter. – After so long a dearth of the necessities, not to say luxuries of life, the South will do a large business in northern merchandise; and recent events in Virginia, where the federal arms have advanced, show that there is still money in the South, which has escaped the grasp of Jeff. Davis, and which will be paid for northern wares.

To those who are still more fearful, and in addition to a general stagnation of business are anticipating the speedy bankruptcy of the government and the people, on account of the large expenditures of war purposes, it may be comforting to be reminded that the expenses of Great Britain for the last year, and in a time of peace, were nearly a million and a quarter dollars a day. This is nearly as much as our expenditures in a time of war; and yet who talks of the English nation becoming bankrupt! If England can safely weather such a tax as this annually, surely we can pay the expenses of this war for the Union, and pay it without groaning, a hundred cents on the dollar. Let the nervous, and the timid, and the speculating, croak on about bankruptcy and ruin. – The nation is not yet insolvent and is not likely to be. We have passed through the hardest financial period, and with the general hope and confidence in the success of our efforts to crush out the rebellion, business must revive. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; for even the tax bill, heavy as it is, is not weighty enough to crush the buoyancy and enthusiasm of the people. – {Springfield Republican.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

The Volunteer

“AT dawn,” he said, “I bid them all farewell,
To go where bugles call and rifles gleam.”
And with the restless thought asleep he fell,
And glides ino dream.

A great hot plain from sea to mountain spread –
Through it a level river slowly drawn.
He moved with a vast crowd and at its head
Streamed banners like the dawn.

There came a blinding flash, a deafening roar,
And dissonant cries of triumph and dismay;
Blood trickled down the river’s reedy shore,
And with the dead he lay.

The morn broke in upon his solemn dream;
And still, with steady pulse and deepening eye
“Where bugles call,” he said, “and rifles gleam,
I follow, though I die!”

Wise youth! By few is glory’s wreath attained,
But death or late or soon awaiteth all.
To fight in Freedom’s cause is something gained
And nothing lost, to fall.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

The Incurable Malignants

In another column we print an interesting letter from Central Kentucky. The writer is a woman, and a determined Unionist, and she gives a very clear impression of the condition of public sentiment in the part of the State in which she lives. It is sad to read of the division of families and the alienation of friendships caused by the lawless rebellion into which the demamogues [sic] of the South have enticed so many people. That the conduct of the secessionists in Kentucky is as perfidious as she describes it to be does not surprise us. The experience of the past year has shown that when men cast of their allegiance they throw away with it, too often, most of the sentiments of honor by which society is upheld. They deny their debts, break their oaths, malign their opponents, and, indeed, seem indifferent to all the usual impulses of manly feeling

It is frequently asked, What is to become of these determined malignants? They are found in St. Louis, in Nashville, in Baltimore, and more or less in all those parts of the slave States which our armies have re-occupied. As we get further South, moreover, the number will increase; and though they will form but a wretched minority, even in South Carolina, their unquiet spirits will try to keep the country in turmoil. Yet we do not see much cause for apprehension on this head. A free people know how to protect themselves against disorganizers. Wherever the rebels are subdued and the supremacy of the laws is re-established, the common sense of the great majority will uphold the government. So long as the rebels hope to succeed, their friends in the loyal States will stand ready to join them, and will – because they peril noting by doing so – openly talk and secretly act in a disloyal manner. But where their cause is made hopeless, as it has been in Maryland and Missouri, they will themselves quiet down, and their sympathetic friends will disappear.

No doubt there will remain in all the southern States a number of implacable natures which it will be difficult if not impossible to reconcile to the defeat of their treasonable schemes. In their infatuation they have taught themselves and their neighbors to hate the Union and the Government; they have long cherished the hope of destroying both, both for personal and political ends, and they will never again be able to resume their former feelings towards their fellow-citizens. The animosity engendered by war will add to the virulence of their passion. How could they live with any comfort under a government they have tried to overturn, obey laws they have spurned, pay taxes for their enforcement, or remain, in short, in a society which, if not antagonistic to them, would be suspicious of them. But such has been the fate of many men, in all ages of the world. It is a melancholy fact that no government ever framed could suit all its subjects. There have been grumblers and malcontents under despotisms, and now under the freest and best government in the world. – Fortunately, however, there has been a way of escape open to such persons. The Puritans were a dissatisfied class; they emigrated, first to Holland, and not finding themselves comfortable there, next to America. – After the act of Union was passed thousands of Irishmen were dissatisfied, and they departed for distant shores. In Germany there has long been a numerous body of unsatisfied people, who have found their relief in migrating, some to Brazil, some to Chili, and other to the United States. Emigration, indeed, has been a kind of safety-valve for nearly all the older nations – for Norway, Sweden, Demark, England and Scotland – and the descendants of these classes make up almost the whole of our population. They all removed when they found themselves no longer comfortable under the established government of their native country. Parts of South Carolina and Georgia were settled by French Protestants who were likely to suffer from the repeal of the Edict of Nantes. In a word, if we look back through history we shall find that ever since the days when the Children of Israel got tired of making bricks without straw, and returned to Palestine, emigration has been the outlet and cure for all sorts of dissatisfactions.

Even in our own country the process is not at all unknown. Many of the free States of the West are populated in great part by the emigrants from slave States. In Indiana whole counties are composed of Kentuckians and their children, poor non-slaveholders, who fled from stagnation imposed on free labor by the presence of slaves. Every eastern slave State has been drained by these filtrations of men and women wearied of the bitter struggle with poverty and ignorance, and anxious to secure for their children the benefit of the superior civilization of a free society.

But if such has been the resort of innocent persons in different circumstances, we see no harm in suggesting to those who cannot content themselves in our old Union, as good Uncle Toby said to the fly, “the world is wide enough for me and thee, go in peace.” We shall not, like many of the despotic governments of Europe, interpose difficulties in the way. We shall not require passports or demand of the young man a term of military service before he leaves the government which no longer satisfies him. Go in peace; take your goods with you; seek more congenial climes – sail to Cuba or Brazil, if you will, where you will find even slavery existing to please you; or, if you wo’d revel in that species of barbarism, the whole continent of Africa is open to you, excepting Sierra Leone and Liberia.

It is unreasonable counsel, this? Suppose that of our thirty millions twenty-eight were for Davis and slavery, and two millions for the Union, the Constitution and the Enforcement of the Laws, would not the same advice be offered to the minority – even though they were morally right? And justly, we think. It is necessary to have a government under which peace, law, and order are supreme. Those who are strong must maintain those; those who are week must succumb; must obey while they remain; must emigrate when the can or will no longer obey. – {N. Y. Post.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

A Severe Hurricane

A fierce tornado passed over this county on Tuesday evening of last week. The citizens of Oskaloosa may remember, as we do, seeing a dark, swift, and singular shaped cloud a short distance south west of town. We mentioned last week that in that neighborhood several houses were unroofed and many fences blown down. The cloud passed on toward the northwest, and we do not hear of material damage being done until it came near the village of Indianapolis. There it descended to the earth and swept everything before it. It was funnel-shaped, the smaller part being quite lengthy and reaching nearly to the ground, and moving with frightful rapidity. It struck the house of A. J. Myers and left it a wreck. Barely escaping the house of [Willie] Baker, it demolished his saw-mill and destroyed his grove, also his blacksmith and wagon shop and store room were completely destroyed. The house of Mr. Burkes was ruined; that of John Evans turned round and much damaged, that of James Hines moved and well nigh destroyed, and Mr. Leake’s store turned round but not much injured. The school house standing on the public square was torn to pieces and swept completely away. The residence, smoke house, stable, etc. of James McCoy destroyed. The house of Mrs. Massey, the wife of a soldier was, was apparently crushed, she and her children being protected by the high posts of the bedstead on which they were reclining. The village church was picked up and carried about sixty feet, the roof being taken clear away, and the bare walls left standing – The house of James Green, occupied by William Biggs and I. N. Garret, was wrecked completely. One of James Bridges, occupied by Daniel White, was destroyed, and Mrs. White and child considerably hurt. One of Elijah Sewell, occupied by Wm. Cratty, wrecked. One of D. Tinsley, occupied by Reuben Cooley, unroofed. That of Mr. Robb destroyed. Several other small buildings were blown away. Just after passing through Indianapolis. The cloud struck the ground and for some distance swept it clean. Further on the two story residence of Mrs. Hutchinson was destroyed, and also that of O. Kennels; Mrs. K. being seriously injured. Jos. Bonsall’s house was destroyed, and he and his wife received some personal injury.

J. B. Leake, Esq., to whom we are indebted of the above particulars, mentions several interesting incidents. The hurricane was about two hundred yards in width, and traveled with wonderful rapidity. Mr. L. thinks it could not have been more than half a minute from the time the cloud came in sight until it was gone. In one place a shingle was found driven deep into a solid oak tree. The “suction” was so strong that the windows in some of the building on the outskirts of the storm’s path, were drawn outward and swept away almost with the rapidity of lightning. In once instance a ledger, lying on a desk four or five feet from a window thus carried away, was taken off and had not been found at last accounts. We are sorry to learn that some families not very well off at best have been left in destitute circumstances by this destructive tornado. – {Oskaloosa Herald.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

41st Illinois Infantry

Organized at Decatur, Ill., and mustered in August 5, 1861. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., August 8, 1861, thence to Bird's Point, Mo., August 29, and to Paducah, Ky., September 8. Attached to District of Cairo to December, 1861. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Cairo, to February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of West Tennessee and Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of Memphis, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of Jackson, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 13th Army Corps to August, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, Provisional Division, 17th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to June, 1864 (Non-Veterans). 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to August, 1864 (Non-Veterans). 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to November, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to December, 1864.

SERVICE.--Duty at Paducah, Ky. (Cos. "B" and "I," at Smithland, Ky.), till February, 1862. Demonstration on Columbus, Ky., November 7-9, 1861. Operations against Forts Henry and Heiman, Tenn., February 3-6. Fort Heiman February 7. Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 12-16. Expedition to Clarksville, Tenn., February 19-21. Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 10-16. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. March to Memphis, Tenn., via LaGrange, Grand Junction. Holly Springs and Germantown, June 1-July 21. Duty there till September 6. Moved to Bolivar, Tenn. March to relief of Corinth October 4. Battle of Hatchie River or Metamora, October 5. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Reconnoissance from LaGrange to Lamar, Miss., November 5, 1862. Worsham Creek November 16. Guard R. R. at Moscow, Tenn., January to March, 1863. Skirmish at Moscow February 18 (Detachment). Moved to Memphis, Tenn., March, and duty there till May. Expedition to the Coldwater, Miss., April 18-24. Hernando April 18. Coldwater April 19. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., June 12-22. Siege of Vicksburg June 22-July 4. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10. Siege of Jackson, July 10-17. Assault on Jackson July 12. At Vicksburg till November. Moved to Natchez, Miss., November 18 and return to Vicksburg, December 16. Duty there till February, 1864. Meridian Campaign February 3-March 2. Pearl River February 27. Veterans on furlough March to May, 1864. Non-Veterans on Red River Campaign March 10-May 22. Fort DeRussy March 14. Battle of Pleasant Hill, La., April 9. Pleasant Hill Landing April 12-13. About Cloutiersville April 22-24. At Alexandria April 30-May 13. Boyce's Plantation May 6. Well's Plantation May 6. Bayou Boeuf May 7. Retreat to Morganza May 13-22. Mansura May 16. Yellow Bayou May 18. Moved to Vicksburg, thence to Memphis, Tenn., May 22-June 10. Action at Lake Chicot, Ark., June 6-7. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Miss., July 5-21. Harrisburg near Tupelo July 14-15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30. Veterans moved to Cairo, Ill., thence to Nashville, Tenn., and to Tunnel Hill May, 1864. Assigned to duty guarding R. R. at Tunnel Hill, Moon Station, Big Shanty, Marietta and Kenesaw Mountain till November. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Consolidated with 53d Illinois Infantry December 23, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 107 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 107 Enlisted men by disease. Total 225.

SOURCE: Dyer , Frederick H., A Compendium Of The War Of The Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1264

12th Iowa Infantry Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

IOWA

TO HER 12TH INFANTRY
TUTTLE’S (1ST) BRIGADE
W. H. L. WALLACE’S (2D) DIVISION
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

IOWA

12TH REGIMENT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS
COMMANDED BY COL. J. J. WOODS, (WOUNDED AND CAPTURED)
CAPT. S. R. EDGINGTON, (CAPTURED)

THIS REGIMENT HELD THIS POSITION AGAINST REPEATED ATTACKS FROM 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M., APRIL 6, 1862. IT THEN ABOUT-FACED TO MEET AN ATTACK COMING FROM THE REAR, AND FOUGHT ITS WAY BACK TO THE CAMP OF THE 41ST ILLINOIS, WHERE IT WAS SURROUNDED AND CAPTURED AT 5:30 P.M.

TOTAL NUMBER REPORTED PRESENT FOR DUTY INCLUDING MUSICIANS, TEAMSTERS, ETC., 489.

ITS LOSS IN THE BATTLE WAS, 2 OFFICERS AND 15 MEN KILLED; 1 OFFICER AND 42 MEN WOUNDED AND LEFT ON THE FIELD; 33 MEN WOUNDED AND CAPTURED; 20 OFFICERS AND 366 MEN MISSING; TOTAL 479.

OF THE WOUNDED , 16 DIED OF THEIR WOUNDS; OF THE MISSING, 4 WERE NEVER AFTERWARDS HEARD FROM; THEY WERE DOUBTLESS KILLED; OF THE MISSING 71 DIED IN PRISON.

See Also:

• Dedication Exercises at the 12th Iowa Regimental Monument
• The Iowa Monuments At Shiloh National Military Park
• Official Report of Col. Joseph J. Woods
• Iowa Colonels and Regiments: Joseph Jackson Woods
• Lieut. Col. Samuel R. Edgington

Confiscation

We suppose the Administration has by this time abandoned the ideas which formed the policy of our philosophical Secretary of State, in the early part of the war, that the rebellion would fall to pieces in sixty days – renewed at maturity, as bills often have to be in time of war. We suppose also that it has ceased to find Gen. McClellan’s promises of immediate and decisive movements available as collateral in Wall streets for loans. The Government must by this time see the necessity for putting its finances on some basis that will stand a protracted contest. Even if the war shall come to an end at the limit of another of Mr. Seward’s sixty day predictions, it is neither creditable to the Government nor safe to be shinning on financial shifts that must break down in a limited time.

We refrain from particularizing the financial situation of the Government, but every thinking man knows that its system so far is merely a temporizing one, which constantly increases the difficulty, and which must break down in a limited time. The expense of this war could not be born by the wealthiest nation in the world for any long time. The Confederate leaders know our financial problem as well as we do. They realize it more than we. It is the basis of their hopes of success, and will govern their tactics, if they are defeated in the great battles now pending. They calculate that even a guerilla warfare will compel us to keep up our immense expenditure, and that in a limited time it will break down our finances.

Thus our defective financial system and immense expenditure encourage them to hold out. It is impossible for us to continue the war unless it is made to contribute to its own expenses. Our President, and his philosophical Secretary of State and Congress, may as well look that fact in the face. We have no doubt that the Secretary of the Treasury fully realizes it already. It is an absolute necessity to the preservation of Government. That it is sufficient. We might particularize the financial situation of the Government to prove this, but we forbear out of regard to the public service. If any one in the Administration or in Congress is not aware of it, he had better be in some employment suited to his capacity.

But besides the absolute necessity, what could be more just than that rebels should pay the cost of subduing the rebellion? What more unjust than that the burden should be saddled upon loyal men and future generations? And how can a nation which loads itself with debt to the extent of its capacity, from its internal dissensions, hope to sustain itself in a war with a great foreign power, or to make its power respected by other nations? And what security can the public creditors have for the payment of this debt when the representatives of these rebel States come back into Congress to vote annually upon appropriations to pay the interest on the cost of subjecting them, while their own Confederate debt is disowned? This is only an additional reason for making rebellion pay as it goes the cost of putting it down.

At present the property of every known loyal man in the South, is confiscated to the rebel war fund, while the property of every rebel is sacred to our armies. Thus the rebellion draws more support from the loyal men of the south, than from the rebels. With this means their financial system may outlast ours. The result is that our war expenses are paid entirely and those of the rebels in great part, by the loyal men. A rigid inquisition has been enforced to find out and confiscate all property owned in, and every debt due to, the North. Every item that could be discovered was seized for the confederate treasury, and thousands of the chivalrous traders who went for Secession because it would wipe out their debts to the north, have been forced to pay them into the rebel war fund.

It will be necessary that Congress should accompany its tax bill with a comprehensive confiscation bill, that will reduce the cost of supporting our armies in the enemy’s country, and produce a fund to pay off the public debt. Other wise the people may begin to enquire if the rebellion is not cheaper than loyalty. But the question of confiscation in Congress runs against slavery at the outset, and so far that has blocked the way. There is eminent propriety in confiscating the property which, if not the who cause, is the means of creating and sustaining the rebellion; but slavery also furnished a means by which all Boarder Slave State Representatives and all Democrats resist any measure of confiscation, and so sacred is slavery in the Northern mind, that it has great effect in protecting other rebel property from just retribution.

There are, besides, peculiar difficulties involved in the confiscation of slaves. What shall be done with them? Some of the very representatives who talk of confiscating them, declare also that their states will not have them. The Government cannot sell them, nor transfer them to “loyal men,” as some of our patriotic Southern “Union men” propose. That would be sowing the seeds of rebellion broadcast among the loyal. Colonization is a very comfortable doctrine, but at best, even if the Government should make extraordinary exertions, it would only amount to the transportation of a few thousand or hundred thousand of the most enterprising of them to a foreign country, leaving the evil in its full magnitude here.

The negro’s fate has fixed him here, and here he will remain to work it out. They who make colonization a condition of emancipation might as well drop both ideas. When it comes to general emancipation in the South by military power or any other power, it must be by a power that will protect the negroes in the South. They are the foundation of its wealth, as laborers are everywhere. There is no country that could have such an exodus of its laboring population without ruin. Confiscation of slaves at once raises the question how they shall be disposed of, and we do not find any yet who are able to answer it an any way that will meet a general case.

We propose that the confiscation measure be relieved of this embarrassment, by leaving out of it the slaves. This may be reasonably done, on the ground that the confiscation of slaves will not help our treasury. This will bring the question of proper penalties on rebel property before our Border State Union men, and our Democratic brethren, divested of this danger to Slavery, which is so much more fearful to them than the danger to the nation, or than all the sufferings and sacrifices of the people. Let them be tried squarely on the question of confiscation of other property. Then the confiscation of the slaves of rebels can be tried in a separate measure, when such a measure is thought expedient.

We are aware that it is galling to the people who have sent their sons and brothers to fight this rebellion, that it should have the aid of black men, who would be our best friends. The feeling of the people of the north has also been grossly outraged that Northern soldiers should be used as a slave police in the South for half and whole traitors. But the Commander-in-Chief can stop the later practice if he chooses; and as to the other, the army could not receive without embarrassment any more of negroes that it could make useful to it. Should its marches be the dispensation of liberty to the bondmen, it might have the hole colored population of the south with it. The African foundation would drop from the kingdom of Cotton, and the bottom from the rebellion; but the same question would arise: What shall be done with the negro?

Unquestionably the army has the right to avail itself of the aid of any person in the enemy’s country, and the commander who does not would be responsible for the sacrifice of his army, if defeat resulted from the neglect of such aid. This is a right, according to the rules of war; but there is an act of Congress confiscating all slaves used for military purposes, which would furnish our army with all the negroes it could use. They might be of great service in camp duties, as cooks, hospital attendants, teamsters, guides, &c., and work on entrenchments, greatly to the relief of our soldiers, and to the release of a large number who are kept for the fighting ranks by such duties. The army might have its pick of the able bodied black men for these services.

But this it is the duty of the Commander-in-Chief to attend to, and his power is amply efficient. It is as far as any confiscation of slaves can go, until provision is made for protecting them in the country where they are, and where their labor is vital to its propriety. But the confiscation of other property can be divested of this question and of all the subterfuges which it furnishes to disloyalty. – {Cincinnati Gazette.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

4th Minnesota Infantry

Organized by Companies at Fort Snelling, Minn., as follows: Company "A" mustered in October 4, 1861, and Company "B" October 2, 1861. Moved to Fort Ridgly, Minn., and garrison duty there till March, 1862. Company "C" mustered in October 7, 1861. Also moved to Fort Ridgly and garrison duty there till March, 1862. Company "D" mustered in October 10, 1861. Moved to Fort Abercrombie, D. T., and duty there till March, 1862. Company "E" mustered in November 27, 1861. Company "F" mustered in October 11, 1861. Company "G" mustered in November 22, 1861. Moved to Fort Abercrombie and duty there till March, 1862. Company "H" mustered in December 20, 1861. Company "I" mustered in December 23, 1861. Company "K" mustered in December 23, 1861. Regiment concentrated at Fort Snelling March, 1862, and moved to Benton Barracks, Mo., April 20-23, 1862. Moved to Hamburg Landing, Tenn., May 2-14. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of Mississippi, May to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 17th Army Corps, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., May 18-30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Duty at Clear Creek till August. Expedition to Rienzi and Ripley June. Moved to Jacinto August 5, and duty there till September 18. March to Iuka, Miss., September 18-19. Battle of Iuka September 19. Moved to Corinth October 1. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit to Ripley October 5-12. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. Reconnoissance from Lagrange November 8-9, 1862. Duty at White's Station and Memphis, Tenn., till February, 1863. Expedition to Yazoo Pass by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass and Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers February 24-April 8. Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood March 13-April 5. Moved to Milliken's Bend, La., April 13-15. Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30. Battle of Port Gibson, Miss., May 1. Jones' Cross Roads and Willow Springs May 3. Battles of Raymond May 12; Jackson May 14; Champion's Hill May 16; Big Black River May 17. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Surrender of Vicksburg July 4. Garrison duty at Vicksburg till September 12. Moved to Helena, Ark., September 12, thence to Memphis, Tenn., and Corinth, Miss., and march to Chattanooga, Tenn., October 6-November 20. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 24-25. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. At Bridgeport and Huntsville, Ala., till June, 1864. Operations about Whitesburg, Ala., February 2, 1864. Veterans on furlough March 5 to May 4, 1864. Moved from Huntsville, Ala., to Stevenson, Ala., thence to Kingston, Ga., June 22-25, thence to A1-latoona July 5-6, and garrison duty there till November. Battle of Allatoona October 5. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah, Ga., December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C., February 2-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. About Columbia February 15-17. Cheraw March 3. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June 2-3. Duty there till July 19. Mustered out July 19 and discharged at St. Paul, Minn., August 7, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 58 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 175 Enlisted men by disease. Total 239.

SOURCE: Dyer , Frederick H., A Compendium Of The War Of The Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1297-8

More Nurses Wanted

Dr. Hughes, Superintendent of the Hospital request us to state that several more good male nurses are needed for permanent employment in the Hospital. Apply at once to Dr. Hughes. – Gate City.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Rebellious Memphis now lies between two fires.

Captain Porter’s Mortar fleet, having planted the Federal flag in New Orleans, will now probably ascend the river to Vicksburgh [sic] and Memphis; and Com. Foote’s flotilla will be there as soon as wanted. Memphis must be a tremor about this time.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

The Difference

The rebels have lost the following Generals during the war:

Garnett was killed at Carrick’s Ford; Burton and Bee at Manassas; Zollicoffer at Mill Springs; McCulloch, McIntosh and Slack at Pea Ridge; A. Sidney Johnston and Bushrod Johnson at Pittsburg Landing. Then we have captured Tilghman, Buckner, McCall, Galt, and Walker.

On the other hand, so far Generals Lyon and Wallace are the only Generals killed in battle, although Lander died from effects of a wound. Gen. Prentiss is the only prisoner of the same rank in possession of the rebels.

We hope all of the rebel officers will not be disposed of by bullets. There ought to be some left to taste the virtue of hemp.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

The Army Before Yorktown

THE FORTIFICATIONS AND FORCE OF THE ENEMY.

(Correspondence of the N. Y. Evening Post.)

IN CAMP NEAR YORKTOWN, VA
April 22, 1862.

A visit to the extreme left of our lines on the shores of the James river yesterday put me in possession of some facts concerning the fortifications of the enemy. Commencing upon the shore of the York river, opposite Gloucester Point, the rebel earthworks extend down the river for a distance of nearly half a mile; then, turning at right angles, extend another half mile and connect with a new line of works in the rear. – Another line, nearly straight, extends in a southwesternly direction across the peninsula to James river. After leaving the principal work at Yorktown, which is mounted with nearly one hundred heavy guns, the rebel line is principally composed of simple breastworks, which have been thrown up to a height of four of five feet, and armed with pieces of small caliber.

For the first half mile, there are several heavy pieces, and for the next half mile not at all, the works being protected by rifle pits and bodies of infantry, with low, swampy land outside, which will prevent approach. Afterwards the works, guns, and rifle pits occur at intervals. – When within three miles of James River, the works are dug along the bank of a creek, across which the rebels have constructed dams, raising ponds of various depths and widths, with earthworks at the dams and rifle pits between. At the mouth of the creek the works are somewhat stronger, and extend up the river a short distance.


THE REBEL FORCE.

Of course our force occupies the entire line, and meets the enemy face to face in frequent skirmishes. The rebels are in force at all points near their guns, or at least have the power to concentrate a considerable number of troops at any time on short notice. They also have a supply of moveable artillery, which they transfer rapidly from one point to another, as occasion requires. Their principal force of men and guns occupies a point just outside of their heaviest works, and, from the increase in the number of tents and the camp fires, it is judged that heavy reinforcements must have been received during the past week. I do not, however, share in the belief that there is anything like a hundred thousand men in the vicinity. I doubt even whether they have half that number.

In artillery the enemy must be deficient, for their guns are scarcely half as many as ours. At the batteries we have thus far engaged, or where a skirmish has occurred, this supposed deficiency in artillery and the superiority of our numbers, as well as the courage of our men, give us a decided advantage. Our sharpshooters follow the retreating foe up to the very edge of the works and maintain the position, picking off their gunners at every attempt to load or fire their pieces. In this way the slaughter of the rebels has been terrible, for there is no disputing the fact when men are plainly seen to tumble over at their posts. The aim of our riflemen has been unerring. The rebels are probably deficient in sharpshooters, as our gunners continue their work unmolested; not one of them having been killed by a rifle ball as yet, although their daring conduct has exposed them to the severest fire.


FLAGS OF TRUCE – WHAT THE REBELS SAY.

Flags of truce from the enemy have been received within our lines, and during the intercourse of our men with the rebels various matters were talked of. One of the rebels, and Irishman, inquired if there were any Irishmen in our ranks, and said he wanted to get over to us, but could get no chance to do so. Several expressed their hatred of the war, and said they wished it was over. While such remarks were made in a cautions manner, others expressed a malignant hatred of the Union cause and of the Union troops. The greater part – three hundred at least – seen near their works were negroes. The rebels had some fifty dead bodies to take care of, many of whom were also negroes.

The flag of truce over, our guns and sharpshooters again opened, and not a rebel head was afterwards visible. At this time a novel kind of weapon was brought into service. It consists of a large sized rifle with a hopper and machinery at the breach, which loads and fires by turning a crank, one hundred and seventy times in a few seconds. In fact, it is one continuous discharge. The balls flew thick and fast, and the Yankee invention must have astonished the other side. There are some half dozen of these guns in the division on trial, and, if we may believe our eyes while watching the effect they are entitled to consideration.


NIGHT ATTACKS.

During the night, and under cover of a heavy rain which had set in, the rebels began a slight skirmish, which resulted in nothing but a waste of ammunition on their side. The first indication was a signal resembling the hoot of an owl from a whistle in the hands of their pickets, followed by a rocket and a simultaneous discharge as if from a force of several regiments, and continuing some minutes.

In returning from the visit to our left we took the road which leads from Yorktown to Warwick and follows in a close proximity to the rebel works, in many instances quite near, and in full view across the open field. But for the greater part of the way the road crosses through a dense forest. In fact, two-thirds of the country in the center of the Peninsula is a forest, broken here and there by a small plantation, now deserted. At intervals along the road our batteries were in active play upon the rebels, receiving, however but a feeble response, as if they were waiting for our nearer approach or were shot of ammunition. They evidently hold us in supreme contempt, although they may have a different impression by and by.


PROSPECTS.

It is a matter of considerable speculation why they should suffer works to have been thrown up right under their eyes, and why they maintain such a prolonged silence. At a few points they replied sharply for a few minutes, and then abandoned it. At no point have we allowed them to construct a new fortification, and have even grown saucy and overbearing in our treatment of the rascals. We have crowded them up until they cannot work their guns, and taunted them in every possible manner.

While we can give no indications of what our preparations are, it is sufficient to say that those of us here on the grounds, and in close daily observation of the works, are surprised both at the developments of Gen. McClellan’s and Gen. F. J. Porter’s ingenuity and skill in taking advantage of natural positions, and the rapidity with which the work advances. Have patience; the men in command and their means are equal to the occasion, and whether the rebels make a stubborn resistance and fight a bloody fight, or evacuate after a few rounds, the army of the Potomac is ready.


PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE.

There is no change to report in the progress of the siege. Two contrabands passed the enemy’s guard in a boat during the darkness and rain of last evening and came to our lines. – One of them is a boy of sixteen, and unusually keen. The other is about thirty five years old, and shrewd. These negroes state that General Magruder is at Lee’s Mill, about four miles in front of the James river, and twelve miles from Williamsburgh. The rebels have a good road along the line of their fortifications from Yorktown to Lee’s Mill. There are no fortifications in the rear of the first rebel line, but guns are moved from point to point is circumstances require.

The contrabands also stat the Gen. Joseph Johnston commands at Yorktown; that Jeff Davis is at Richmond, and in the language of the contrabands, “a heap o’ sacred,” as are all the rebels at Yorktown; and that many negroes are at work on earthworks and working the guns in the forts.

The contrabands were quite positive that the rebels had about sixty thousand men, but little confidence can be placed in their ideas of numbers. Thet came through a portion of our camp where they could see the tents, artillery, &c., of ten thousand men, and in reply to the question if they had as many men as we had, replied: “Oh, jist ‘bout half of what we see hereabouts.” So you will see that there is no idea of numbers.

Yorktown is something over a mile back from the fortifications, and separated by “the Pines,” a piece of pine woods. A large number of houses have been torn down to keep us from getting into them. All the information I can gather leads to the conclusion that the rebels will fight hard while they can do so with artillery, but they have no [confidence] in themselves.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

A letter from Fort Pillow says . . .

. . . that the mosquitoes are plenty there, and Nature’s sweet restorer has become a myth. An extra order has gone up to Cairo for mosquito bars, and until they arrive the sailors live in torment. The weather is extremely warm, and vegetation is in full bloom. It is actually summer.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

A well sunk at any point . . .

. . . along the Saginaw river, Michigan, to the depth of 700 feet, will bring to the surface the strongest and purest salt brine found anywhere in the Unites States.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

7th Iowa Infantry Monument: Shiloh National Military Park

IOWA

TO HER
7TH INFANTRY
TUTTLE’S (1ST) BRIGADE
W. H. L. WALLACE’S (2D) DIVISION
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

IOWA
7TH REGIMENT INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS
COMMANDED BY LT. COL. J. C. PARROTT

ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 6, 1862 THE REGIMENT, AS PART OF THE BRIGADE, FORMED IN LINE OF BATTLE ON THE LEFT OF THE 2ND IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, ON A SUNKEN ROAD, THE CENTER OF THE REGIMENT BEING WHERE THIS MONUMENT STANDS. IT HELD ITS POSITION, REPELLING A NUMBER OF ATTACKS, UNTIL LATE IN THE AFTERNOON WHEN THE BRIGADE WAS ORDERED TO FALL BACK. IN THE RETREAT THE REGIMENT WAS SUBJECTED TO A SEVERE FIRE FROM BOTH SIDES. IT REFORMED IN A NEW LINE OF BATTLE ALONG A ROAD LEADING TO THE LANDING AND HELD THAT POSITION DURING THE NIGHT.

ON THE MORNING OF APRIL 7, THE REGIMENT WAS ASSIGNED TO THE RESERVE AND, UNDER ORDERS FROM GENERAL CRITTENDEN, CHARGED AND CAPTURED ONE OF THE ENEMY’S BATTERIES.

PRESENT FOR DUTY, INCLUDING OFFICERS, MUSICIANS, TEAMSTERS, ETC., 383.

ITS LOSS WAS, 1 OFFICER AND 9 MEN KILLED; 17 MEN WOUNDED; 7 MEN MISSING; TOTAL 34.


See Also:

• Dedication Exercises at the Seventh Iowa Regimental Monument
• The Iowa Monuments at Shiloh National Military Park
• Official Report of Lieut. Col. James C. Parrott
• Biographical Sketch of James C. Parrott

44th Indiana Infantry

Organized at Fort Wayne, Ind., and mustered in November 22, 1861. Moved to Henderson, Ky., December. Attached to 13th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, December, 1861. 13th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to March, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to April, 1862. 14th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 14th Brigade, 5th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, to November, 1863. Post of Chattanooga, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade, Post of Chattanooga, Tenn., to January, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to May, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to September, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Calhoun, Green River, Ky., January-February, 1862. Moved to Fort Donelson, Tenn., February 11-12. Investment and capture of Fort Donelson February 14-16. Expedition to Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 9-14. Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7. Advance on siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg to Loudon, Ky., October 1-22. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 22-November 7, and duty there till December 26. Lavergne November 23. Advance on Murfreesboro, Tenn., December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till June. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. Mission Ridge September 22. Before Chattanooga September 22-26. Siege of Chattanooga September 26-November 23. Assigned to Provost duty at Chattanooga November 8. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Mission Ridge November 25. On Provost duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., till September, 1864. At Tullahoma September 28 to October 2. Return to Chattanooga, Tenn., October 15, and Provost duty there till September, 1865. Mustered out September 14, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 76 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 9 Officers and 220 Enlisted men by disease. Total 309.

SOURCE: Dyer , Frederick H., A Compendium Of The War Of The Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1136

The reason that the Federal Flotilla in the Mississippi . . .

. . . does not push the assault upon Fort Pillow more vigorously is doubtless because a Federal victory is speedily expected at Corinth, in which case all the forts on the Mississippi, and Memphis, would speedily fall into our hands.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Bravery of Gen. Lauman

The correspondent of the World gives the following account of the heroic conduct of Gen. [Lauman] and his Brigade on the eventful 6th of April:


ATTACK ON OUR LEFT FLANK.

On the right the enemy were repulsed three [sic] several times by Sherman and McClernand, who in turn were forced back also. About noon the enemy abandoned our centre – Gen. Hurlbut never having budged an inch before him – and flung himself in force upon our left in command of Col. David Stewart, acting Brigadier General of the Douglas Brigade. They were outnumbered and over powered, and fell back.

Gen. Hurlbut then advanced Gen. Lauman’s brigade to the left, also a battery of artillery, and the enemy pressed on to the attack. Gen. Lauman’s brigade, composed at the time of only seventeen hundred men, bravely and firmly received and withstood the shock, and returned the enemy’s fire with slaughterous effect. Gen. Hurlbut informed Gen. Grant that He must have reinforcements, and was informed that none could be spared for him.


GALLANT CHARGE OF THE FOURTY-FOURTH INDIANA.

Having but ten rounds of ammunition left, Gen. Lauman advised the Forty-fourth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers, which by this time was reduced to less than three hundred men, to advance upon the enemy. This order is deserving of italics and immortality. It was the most daring and adroit piece of strategy of the battle. To hold the position was impossible, to retreat was to be destroyed and, in addition, to lose the batteries at the landing about a mile in the rear. This critical situation Gen. Lauman saw and comprehended. It was a situation to unnerve even a cool man. As I stood upon the spot, the thrilling scene passing before my imagination, I shuddered from head to foot. And Gen. Hurlbut is said to have exclaimed at the spectacle of this three hundred marching coolly into the face of fifteen regiments, “a gallant but rash movement!” expecting to see the little band literally wiped out.

The poor fellows saw the peril of the step they were about to take, and for an instant hesitated. It was but for an instant. Maj. Albert Heath, one of the staff officers, seized the regimental colors and advanced to within two hundred yards of the [enemy] crying, “Remember Buena Vista!” and with a storm of huzzas, the gallant fellows obeyed, made a line at their flag, and charged upon the enemy, who fled in dismay. Ten thousand fled in dismay before three hundred. The enemy imagined a powerful force behind them. After expending the tenth and last cartridge, Gen. Lauman quietly and orderly withdrew his troops one mile, when he formed again, and after a two hours’ fight, again repulsed the enemy, who outnumbered him at least three to one. – By this time darkness put a period to the hostilities, Sherman and McClernand having maintained their original position.

Third Brigade, Gen. Lauman, went in with 1,727. – Killed, 78; wounded 378; missing 16. Total, 472

It fought 15,000 of the enemy five hours, and retreated with such fine strategy as to completely baffle and confound the enemy.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Deaths in Keokuk Post Hospital

April 26, J. W. Chapman, Co. _ 8th Ohio.
April 20, Josiah Harris, Co. A, 13th Iowa.
April 20, Patrick Kennedy, Co. G, 12th Illinois.
April 20, Almond Webster, Co. E, 16th Wis.
April 20, Wm. Arnold, Co. G, 48th Ills.
April 20, Geo. J. Miller, Co. E, 16th Wis.

Friends of the deceased are referred to V. T. Perkins, undertaker.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1

Deceased Iowa Soldiers

AT NASHVILLE.

Stephen Dyrait, private, 15th Iowa, company E, March 23d.


AT CINCINNATI.

Fourth Street Hospital. - A. J. Edwards, co. C 13th Iowa, died April 20th, of a gunshot wound in the lungs.

St. John’s Hospital. – John Luellen, Co. I, 2nd Iowa, died April 19th of a gunshot wound and amputation below the knee; John Hall, Co. C, 13th Iowa, died April 20th, of a gunshot wound and amputation in thigh.


AT ST. LOUIS.

Henry Kirk White, Corporal, Co. G, 2d; John Coffman, Co. K, 15th; Wm. Butler, Corporal, Co. E, 16th; John H. Talbot, co. H, 3d; Selden E. Kirkpatrick, co. E, 2d; Andrew Slatten, co D, 2d; Thomas B. Jones, co. C, 6th; Thomas Sosebee, co. F, 13th; Thomas McKnough, co I, 11th.


AT KEOKUK POST HOSPITAL.

Patrick Looby, co. K, 11th, April 24th.


AT SIMON’S GENERAL HOSPITAL, MOUND CITY.

April 15 – Joseph Hill, Co. G. 3d Iowa.
April 15 – W. Simmons, Co. E, 11th Iowa.
April 12 – Jacob Moore, Co. B, 3d Iowa.
April 18 – H. Layman, Co K, 14th Iowa.
April 19 – Henry Ross, Co. I, 14th Iowa.
April 14 – Dan’l Burkley, Co. I, 15th Iowa.
April 21 – Stephen Cousins, Co. A, 3d Iowa.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 1