Battery "K," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Shawneetown, Ill., and mustered in January 9, 1862. Ordered to Cairo, IlL, March, 1862. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., to November, 1862. District of Columbus, Ky., 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. District of Columbus, Ky., 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863. District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to October, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to November, 1863. (A section of Battery detached with Grierson's Cavalry Brigade, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862, to March, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to May, 1863. Cavalry Brigade, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to November, 1863.) 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee, to November, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississipi, to December, 1864.

SERVICE.--Duty at Cairo, Ill.; Paducah, Ky., and in District of Columbus, Ky., till October, 1863. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863 (Section). Reconnoissance from Lagrange toward Colliersville, Tenn., November 5, 1862 (Section). Action at Ripley, Miss., December 23 (Section). Middleburg and near Bolivar, Tenn., December 24 (Section). At Lagrange and Memphis, Tenn., till April, 1863 (Section). Expedition from Lagrange March 8-13, 1863. Skirmishes at Covington March 9-10 (Section). Grierson's Expedition from Lagrange to Baton Rouge, La., April 17-May 2 (Section). Palo Alto and Okolona, Miss., April 21-22 (Section). Garlandsville, Miss., April 24 (Section). Union Church April 28 (Section). Brookhaven April 29 (Section). Wall's Post Office, La., May 1 (Section). Robert's Ford, Comite River, La., May 2 (Section). Plain's Store, La., May 21 (Section). Siege of Port Hudson, La., May 24-July 9 (Section). Clinton June 3-4 (Section). Jackson Cross Roads June 20 (Section). Moved from Port Hudson, La., to Memphis, Tenn., July 18-28 (Section). Duty at Germantown, Tenn., till November. Operations in North Mississippi and West Tennessee against Chalmers October 4-17. Scout from Germantown to Tullahoma October 22-24. Operations on Memphis & Charleston R. R. November 3-5. Quinn and Jackson's Mills and Collersville November 3. Moscow and Lafayette November 5. Operations on Memphis & Charleston R. R. against Lee's attack November 28-December 10. Saulsbury December 3. Wolf Bridge, near Moscow, December 3-4. Lafayette December 4. Operations against Chalmers and  Forest till February, 1864. Colliersville December 27-28, 1863. Smith's Expedition from Colliersville to ekelena and West Point, Miss., February 11-26, 1864. West Point February 20-21. Okolona February 21. Ivey's Hill, near Okolona, February 22. At Germantown and Memphis till July. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo July 5-21. Near Tupelo July 14-15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30. Tallahatchie River August 7-9. Hurricane Creek and Oxford August 9. Hurricane Creek August 13, 14 and 19. Expedition into Middle Tennessee and North Alabama September 30-November 1. Campaign against Hood in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee November 1-December 10. Shoal Creek, Ala., November 11. On line of Shoal Creek November 16-20. Lawrenceburg November 22. Campbellsville November 24. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Franklin November 30. Mustered out December 10, 1864. Veterans and Recruits transferred to Battery "E," 1st Illinois Light Artillery.

Battery lost while in service 11 Enlisted men by disease.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1038-9

Battery "K," 1st Regiment Light Artillery, Reorganized

Reorganized March, 1865, by assignment of Colvin's Independent Battery Light Artillery. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East Tennessee, and duty at Cumberland Gap and in District of East Tennessee till July. Mustered out July 15, 1865.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1039

Official List Of the Killed and Wounded of the 7th Iowa Infantry in the battle of Fort Donelson, on February 13th, 14th and 15th, 1862

COMPANY A.

Killed -  None.

Wounded – Private Chas. Goonoe, slightly.

COMPANY B.

Killed – None.

Wounded. – Privates, Jefferson P. Bailey, back and arm, slightly; W. E. Newman, leg, severely; John C. Walling, left hand, slightly; John Brown, right hand slightly; D. C. Andrews, leg, slightly.

COMPANY C.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Lieut. Wm. Moore, left eye shot out; Sergt. W. H. Burkey, right eye, slightly; Corpl. D. S. Sharp, left leg, flesh wound; Privates. W. S. Else, right shoulder, slightly; F. M. Hoover, left eye, slightly; J. Holmie, leg, flesh wound; J. T. Seary, right arm, flesh wound; Wm. H. Valandingham, fingers, left hand, slightly; H. Roberts, breast very slightly.

COMPANY D.

Killed -  Private M. C. Stewart.

Wounded – Privates John Bray, head, slightly; N. M. Redding, hand, slightly; Lieut. J. B. Sample, groin, slightly.

COMPANY E.

Killed – Private Michael Wright.

Wounded – 1^st Sergt. Hugh C. Allen, thigh musket ball, flesh wound.

COMPANY F.

Killed -  None.

Wounded – Privates Harmon Husker, leg, slightly; Patrick Devoniux, back slightly; Eli Searl, foot, slightly; Warren Kingsley, cheek, severely.

COMPANY G.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Corp. Columbus Dillon, slightly by a shell; Privates Wm. Kearns, slightly by a shell; Eli Sweet and John B. Graham, slightly by musket ball.

COMPANY H.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Sergt. J. S. Montgomery, left cheek, slightly; Sergt. R. N. Graham, thigh, slightly; Privates Wm. Vannatta, head, very slightly; Theophilus Ferroe, hip, slightly; Joseph Carr, back, slightly.

COMPANY I.

Killed – None.

Wounded – 1^st Sergt. F. A. Irwin, severely, musket ball.

COMPANY H [sic].

Killed – None.

Wounded – Privates A. N. Stafford, thigh, slightly; Joseph Storts, slightly; F. Dutton, slightly.

RECAPITUALTION.

Killed – Two privates.

Wounded -  Two lieutenants, five sergeants, two corporals, twenty-eight privates.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 1

Robert H. Kerr

Private, Co. E, 16^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

Battery "I," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ill., and mustered in February 10, 1862. Moved to Benton Barracks, Mo., March 1. Thence to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 1-4. Served unattached Army Tennessee, to May, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. 1st Division, Right Wing, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to April, 1864. Artillery Reserve, Nashville, Tenn., to November, 1864. Artillery, 5th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7, 1862. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Russell House May 17. March to Memphis, Tenn., June 1-July 21, and duty there till November. Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. "Tallahatchie March" November 26-December 12. At Memphis and guarding Railroad till June, 1863. Action at Wall Hill May 11. Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., June 6-11. Siege of Vicksburg June 12-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. At Big Black River till September 25. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 25-November 23. Operations on Memphis and Charleston R. R. 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. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 9. At Scottsboro, Ala., till April, 1864. Garrison duty at Nashville, Tenn., till November. Operations in Tennessee and Alabama and Nashville Campaign against Hood November-December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-28. Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-19. West Harpeth River December 17. Rutherford Creek December 19. Lynnville and Rockland Creek December 24. Anthony's Gap, near Pulaski, December 25. At Huntsville, Ala.; Florence, Ala.; Eastport, Miss.; Iuka, Miss., and Gravelly Springs, Ala., till July, 1865. Moved to Chicago, Ill., and mustered out July 26, 1865.

Battery lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 13 Enlisted men by disease. Total 14.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1038

List of Killed and Wounded in the 14th Regiment Iowa Infantry, at the battle of Fort Donelson, February 13th, 14th, and 15th, 1862

REGIMENT STAFF.

Killed – [Sergeant] Major J. H. Smith, shot through the head.

COMPANY D.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Second Lieut. Wm. Gordon, slight wound on hip from piece of shell; Privates Augusts Morti, slight wound on hand; Stephen Joy, slight wound in the knee; Watson Long, slight wound in side.

COMPANY F.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Sergt. Eli Coddington, left arm badly shattered and amputated; Privates, Edward Edgar, hand, slight; James Coughnour, hand, slight.

COMPANY G.

Killed – Private Thomas Snelling.

Wounded – Privates James Fox, shoulder, slight; Charles Ford, spent ball in stomach, slight, First Lieut. George Pemberton, spent ball in breast, slight.

COMPANY H.

Killed -  None.

Wounded – Sergt. Jacob L. Wright, shot thro’ the hand, slight; Privates, Benj. L. Gowing, in the foot, slight; Erhardt Burk, in wrist, slight; Dewit C. Clothier, hand, slight; David Patterson, spent ball in the ankle, slight; Burtis M. Gurd, wrist, slight; Mather Neely, in head, recovering rapidly; Geo. Harris, leg; Dan’l B. Widell, shoulder.

COMPANY I.

Killed – Color Corporal Willard Hall, shot in the head.

Wounded – Privates, Henry C. Boyer shot in the cheek, slight, Grannison Reeder, in side, by piece of shell.

COMPANY K.

Killed – None.

Wounded – Privates, William Lenty, grape shot in back, mortally; Hopkins Smith spent ball in shoulder, slight.

RECAPITULATION.

Killed – Staff, one; Corporal, one; Privates one.

Wounded – Lieutenants, one; Sergeants, two; Privates, nineteen.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 1

John A. Fairman

Private, Co. B, 11^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

Battery "H," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Chicago, III., and mustered in. February 20, 1862. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., thence moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 1-4. Served, unassigned, Army of the Tennessee, April, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, Army Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, District of Memphis, 13th Army Corps, to January, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to September, 1864. Artillery Brigade, 15th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7, 1862. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.   Russell's House May 17. Occupation of Corinth May 30. March to Memphis June 3 to July 21, and duty there till November. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. "Tallahatchie March" November 26-December 13. Moved to Young's Point, La., January, 1863, and duty there till March. Expedition to Rolling Fork, via Muddy, Steele's and Black Bayous and Deer Creek, March 14-27. Demonstration on Haines' and Drumgould's Bluffs April 29-May 2. Movement to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 2-14. Battle of Champion's Hill May 16. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. At Big Black till September 25. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 25-November 21. Operations on Memphis & Charleston R. R. in Alabama, October 20-29. Bear Creek, Tuscumbia, October 27. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 24-25. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit November 26-27. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 13. March to Chattanooga December 13-17, thence to Bridgeport, Ala. Duty at Bridgeport, Bellefonte and Larkinsville, Ala., to May, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Demonstrations on Resaca May 8-13. Battle of Resaca May 13-15. Advance on Dallas May 18-25. Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Ezra Chapel July 28. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoly Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. March to the sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Duck Branch, near Loper's Crossing, S.C., February 2. Salkehatchie Swamp February 3-6. Dillingham's Cross Roads, or Duck Branch, February 3. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12-13. Congaree Creek February 15. Columbia February 16-17. Wateree Creek February 22. Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21. 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. Mustered out June 14, 1865.

Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 6 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 27 Enlisted men by disease. Total 34.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1037-8

The War News

Interesting Southern News

A CONSPIRACY DISCOVERED IN ALEXANDRIA.

Benj. Stark admitted to a Seat in the Senate.

The Bill to Establish temporary Provisional Governments in the Southern States.

Harris driven from Nashville by Union Men.

Columbus to be Evacuated!

A Stand to me made four Miles below.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 1

James Gardner

Corporal, Co. D, 8^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

Battery "G," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Cairo, Ill., and mustered in February 28, 1862. Moved to Columbus, Ky., March 18, thence to Island No. 10, Mississippi River. Attached to Flotilla Brigade, Army of Mississippi, to April, 1862. Artillery Division, Army of Mississippi, to July, 1862. Artillery, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862. Artillery, District of Corinth, 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. Artillery, District of Corinth, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1863. Artillery, District of Corinth, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863. Artillery, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to November, 1863. Post of Corinth, Miss., 16th Army Corps, to January, 1864. Fort Pickering, District of Memphis, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Brigade, Post and Defences of Memphis, District of West Tennessee, to December, 1864. Artillery Reserve, District of West Tennessee, to July. 1865.

SERVICE.--Operations against Island No. 10, Mississippi River, and garrison at New Madrid, Mo., March 20-April 11, 1862. Union City, Tenn., March 31. Action and capture at Tipton April 8. Moved to Columbus, Ky., April 11. Expedition to Fort Pillow, Tenn., April 13-17. Moved to Hamburg Landing, Tenn., April 17-22. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Occupation of Corinth and pursuit to Booneville May 30-June 12. Duty at Corinth, Miss., till January, 1864. Battle of Corinth October 3-4, 1862. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., January, 1864, and duty there in the defences of that city and in the District of West Tennessee till July, 1865. Mustered out July 24, 1865.

Battery lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 11 Enlisted men by disease. Total 12.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1037

Joseph Howard

Corporal, Co. I, 15^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

Honor to the Brave

Col. Lauman commanding the brigade that stormed Fort Donelson, prefaces his official report, of which we publish the list of killed and wounded, of the Iowa 7^th, and 14^th regiments – having already published the official list of the gallant 2d regiment – with the following tribute to officers under his command:

“Captains Slaymaker and Cloutman fell just as they entered the enemy’s fortifications.  Cloutman was instantly killed and Slaymaker died gallantly shouting to hi men to go forward and consummate the work.

“It would afford me much pleasure to particularize the various instances of personal bravery displayed on the occasion by officers under my command, but all behaved so well it would be invidious to particularize, but I cannot refrain from Mentioning in this connection, the bravery of Col. Tuttle, Lieut.-Col. Baker, and Major Chipman, (who received a severe wound in the thigh) of the Iowa Second; Col. Veatch and Lieut. Col. Morgan of the Indiana 25^th, and Col Shaw, of the Iowa 14^th; also, Lieut. Col. Parrott and Major Rice, who led the Iowa 7^th, and to whom I return my warmest acknowledgements for the gallant manner in which they led their regiment in the engagement on the 13^th and 15^th. – They did all that men possibly could do, and will sustained the reputation of the Iowa 7^th.”

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 2

Arrival of the Hibernian

The steamship Hibernian, from Liverpool on Thursday, the 13^th, via Londonderry 14^th, arrive here this afternoon.

American affairs had been debated in the House of Lords, and papers relative to the blockade of the Southern ports were promised shortly by Earl Russell.

The European political news is generally unimportant.

GREAT BRITAIN. – Parliament was discussing American affairs.  In the House of Lords, on the 10^th inst., Earl Carnarvon said he had received information that no less than three British subjects were confined in the prisons of the Federal Government, and had lain there for several months, denied a trial or their release, unless they took an oath of allegiance to the United States.

Earl Russell said that Lord Carnarvon could hardly have read the papers which had been laid on the table, for if he had, he would have seen that these cases had been brought under the notice of the Government.

Earl Maimsbury, in asking for the papers connected with the blockade, complained that the Times had deliberately represented that Earl Derby advocated its being forcibly raised.

Earl Russell said in reply to Maimsbury that on the first night he was glad to find that the noble Earl opposite had approved of the conduct of the Government, and the country must have full confidence when all its leading men agreed.  The papers were now being printed.  They would be in their lordships hands before long.  He hoped they would reserve their opinions till then, considering the importance of the question.

The London Daily News received the engagement at Mill Springs, Ky., as a genuine and important Federal success, and it thinks it may reasonably hope that the Federal troops engaged in it may be taken as a representative specimen of the Union army as it has become under McClellan.  The result of the rapid and decisive nation cannot be doubted.

FRANCE. – Paris letters say that Mr. Slidell had been received by Mr. Thouvenel in a private capacity, his diplomatic assumption of the character being entirely ignored.

LIVERPOOL, 13^th, P. M. – It is intended to dispatch the steamer Great Eastern for New York in April.

The London Times, of the 13^th, publishes further correspondence from Dr. Russell, dated from New York.  In it the writer says that the army of the Potomac is not likely to move till the winter is over, and that a mutinous spirit prevailed among the men, many of whom are better off than ever they were; and that the various expeditions by sea had so far accomplished nothing of moment.  The “affair” in Kentucky he regards as the greatest success yet achieved by the Federals.

Letters from Vienna are filled with most lamentable accounts of the [inundation].  The district submerged in Vienna alone comprises a population of 80,000 persons to be provided for.  Rain fell for four days almost without intermission.  Bridges and viaducts were destroyed, and the railroad services were nearly all suspended.

The Times in an editorial on Burnside’s expedition says the force engaged is plainly inadequate to the service expected, and if Burnside wishes success he will entrench himself, establish a good base of operations, and await reinforcements before renewing the risk of penetrating the enemy’s country.

The great exhibition building, in London, has been delivered up to the commissioners by the contractors.  It was virtually completed at noon on the 12^th inst., as stipulated in the contract.

The Sumter is still at Gibraltar.  Several of her crew who had landed wouldn’t re-embark.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 1

Battery "F," 1st Regiment Light Artillery

Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in February 25, 1862. Ordered to Benton Barracks, Mo., March 15, thence moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 1-9. Attached to 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. Artillery, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to November, 1864. Artillery Reserve, District of Nashville, Tenn., to February, 1865.

SERVICE.--Advance on and Siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30, 1862. March to Memphis, Tenn., Juno 1-17, and duty there till November. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November, 1862, to January, 1863. Duty at Memphis and along Memphis and Charleston R. R. till June, 1863. Ordered to Vicksburg, Miss., June 9. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 16-July 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Camp at Big Black till September 26. Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence to Chattanooga, Tenn., September 28-November 21. Operations on Memphis & Charleston R. R. in Alabama October 20-29. Skirmish at Trenton, Ga., November 18. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Tunnel Hill November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 17. At Scottsboro, Ala., till May, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Demonstrations on Resaca May 9-13. Snake Creek Gap May 10-12. Battle of Resaca May 13-15. Kingston May 19-22. Advance on Dallas May 23-25. Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Ezra Chapel, Hood's second sortie, July 28. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Hood, September 29-November 3. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., and garrison duty there till February, 1865. Battery discontinued February 22, 1865, and men transferred to other Batteries.

Battery lost during service 1 Officer and 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 24 Enlisted men by disease. Total 32.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1037

Iowa Items

The laws enacted at the recent session of the Board of Education will not go into effect till the 10^th of May, when those laws, with the amendments made at the present Legislature, will be distributed to the school districts.

The office of Commissioner of Emigration has been abolished by the Legislature, the act to go into effect in May, when the term of the present commissioner, Hon. N J. Rusch, expires.

A convention of sorghum growers was held at Iowa City on the 17^th, for the purpose of adopting measures preparatory to the establishment of a refinery at that city.  A committee was appointed to conduct correspondence, &c.  Extracts were red from letters from W. H. Belcher, of Chicago, who expresses the opinion that the refined sorghum molasses will eventually drive all others out of market.

A man named Keese was killed at Dubuque on the 22d inst. By falling, head down, about seventeen feet, on ice.

A wild cat was killed on the 13^th inst., in Penn Township, Dubuque county.  It measured three feet ten inches in length from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail.

A few nights since, the residence of Mr. Bowman, two miles west of Adel, was consumed by fire.  The Dallas Union says the family barely escaped from their beds in time to save their lives.  The contents of the building were consumed, the family not even saving sufficient clothing to protect their persons.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 2

“Constitutional Union Party”

Amos Kendall, a gentleman who for more than a quarter of a century figured extensively in our country as a politician of the Democratic school, but for some years has led a retired life, has commenced the publication of a series of articles in the National Intelligencer on the “Object of the war.” From the initial number we make the following extract addressed to President Lincoln:

“Be assured, sir, that the democratic party of the north, with the exception of a few semi-traitors whom they repudiate, cordially approved the objects of the war against rebellion as declared by you in all your public avowals. They rally around you with a devotion to the cause not exceeded by any class of your original supporters, and they will spare no sacrifice to save the Union and the Constitution.  In this great object they are already consolidated with the great mass of the republican party, and will be among the last to despair.  Indeed these two parties for all present purposes constitute but one, which may be appropriately called the CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PARTY.  The object of this party in the pending war is to preserve the Union and the constitution as it is.  It is the Constitution, and that only, which makes us a nation; destroy it, and the nation will cease to exist, being dissolved into thirty-four independent States.

In the beginning of the war, says Mr. Kendall, some of the Democrats “raised their voices against coercion, and thereby unwittingly rendered material service to the cause of the rebellion.”  Of this class was the Democrat of this city, but it has since shown such a disposition to reform that we feel like forgiving it for its past sins and regarding its present course more the earnest of sincerity than the inclination which some men have to float with the popular current.

In the above extract the aged politician has laid down a platform that will do very well for these war times, as it will sustain both Republicans and Democrats – all the people in fact, but a very few ultra ones, who regard the Constitution and Slavery as synonyms.

As the rebel States have forfeited all claim on the Government and voted themselves out of the republic, they should be taken on their own action and be received again only on the footing of territories.  The “Constitutional Union Party” are not in favor of having the property of Northern Union men sold to pay the onus of debt entailed upon the country by the scoundrelism of Southern rebels; but advocate the policy of letting those who inflicted the debt be made to pay it to the last farthing.  We are one of those who believe that the Union, embracing all its original territory, and the Constitution, unimpaired, can be saved and at the same time such measures be adopted as will forever remove from us the course that entailed upon us this war.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, March 1, 1862, p. 2

S. R. Dysert

Private, Co. C, 15^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa

Battery "E," 1st Regiment Light Artillery ("Waterhouse's")

Organized at Chicago, Ill., and mustered in December 19, 1861. Moved to Cairo, Ill., February 13, 1862. Attached to District of Cairo, III., to March, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to November, 1862. Artillery, 5th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, November, 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., 13th Army Corps, to December, 1862. Artillery, 8th Division, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863. Artillery, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps, to December, 1863. Artillery, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, Sturgis' Expedition, June, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1864. Artillery, 1st Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Cumberland, Chattanooga, Tenn., to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Paducah, Ky., till March, 1862. EXpedition from Paducah to Tennessee River and operations about Crump's Landing, Tenn., March 8-14. Expedition to Yellow Creek, Miss., and occupation of Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 14-17. 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 and Holly Springs, June 1-July 21. Duty at Memphis, Tenn., till November. Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign, November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863. Guard R. R. till March, 1863. Moved to Memphis, thence to Duckport, La., March 12-April 1. Demonstrations on Haines' and Snyder's Bluffs April 25-May 2. Movement to Join army in rear of Vicksburg, via Richmond and Grand Gulf, May 2-14. Jackson, Miss., May 14. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22. Expedition to Mechanicsburg May 26-June 4. Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Brandon Station July 19. Camp at Big Black till November. Expedition to Canton October 14-20. Bogue Chitto Creek October 17. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., November 12, and duty guarding Railroad till January, 1864. Expedition to Tallahatchie River February 5-19. Coldwater Ferry February 8. Near Senatobia February 8-9. Wyatt's February 14. At Memphis till April. Sturgis' Expedition from Memphis to Ripley, Miss., April 30-May 9. Sturgis' Expedition from Memphis into Mississippi June 1-13. Brice's, or Tishamingo Creek, near Guntown, June 10. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo July 5-21. Camargo's Cross Roads, Harrisburg, July 13. Tupelo July 14-15. Old Town, or Tishamingo Creek, July 15. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30. Tallahatchie River August 7-9. Oxford August 9. Abbeville August 23. Moved to Duvall's Bluff, Ark., September 1; thence march through Arkansas and Missouri. Light Artillery Reserve, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. Mustered out July 15, 1865.

Battery lost during service 5 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 25 Enlisted men by disease. Total 30.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1036-7

Henry Elmore

Private, Co. D, 15^th Iowa Infantry

Keokuk National Cemetery

Keokuk, Iowa