8th Iowa Calvary battle report

DUNHAM, MCCOOK, HORTON, COBB, LOOMAS, DORR, ISETT, BURNS, DOANE, MOREBISER, WALDEN, MOORE, SHURTS, OGLE, MORELAND, MCCARRON, BELFIELD, ANDERSON, PRITCHARD, WARREN, BENNETT, POWER, PEASE, TIPTON, HAIGHT

Posted By: Donald Detwiler (email)
Date: 3/22/2003 at 07:42:24

Following article from the Burlington Hawk Eye (Burlington, Iowa) August 20, 1864

From the 8th Iowa Calvary August 7, 1864
C. Dunham Esq.----Dear Sir: I give below the names of the commissioned officers of the 8th Iowa Calvary, that were with the late raid of Gen. McCook, in Central Georgia, that their friends may know what became of them, who were captured and who escaped:

Killed
1st Lieut.---James Horton
2nd Lieuts.---Joseph Cobb and ---Loomas

Captured
Col. Jos. B. Dorr, wounded, slight
Maj. John H. Isett
Captains—G. W. Burns, E. B. Doane, P. C. Morebiser, M. M. Walden, James Moore and Elliott Shurts, wounded
1st Lieuts.---Wm. T. Ogle, Henry Moreland, W. McCarron, H. H. Belfield, Chas. F. Anderson, Com. James E. Pritchard, Surg. D. H. Warren, QM C. Bennett
2nd Lieuts.---John C. Power, Geo. Pease wounded, Andrew Tipton, Jacob Haight, --- Detwiler, and Lt. J. Coddington veterinary surgeon

Escaped
Maj. R. Rott; Capt. John Dance, 2nd Lt. J. Morrow

Major Root charged Rosses Brigade of Texas Rangers with 150 men, rank and file, and got through with 2 officers and 10 privates. The Major had two horses killed under him and in falling fractured his shoulder; his clothes are riddled by balls.---Too much praise cannot be given this officer, as by his daring charge on a whole Brigade he opened the road, saving the General Com’dg with 1600 men, who would either have been killed or captured, as they were completely surrounded. Maj. Root is in command of the Brigade at present.

Yours, &c, JOHN DANCE

Capt. 8th Iowa Cav., Com’dg Reg’t.

Comment: The Detwiler in the list was George Marion Detwiler from Van Buren County. These men were captured near Newman, Georgia, on July 30th. They remained in prison two months and two days before being paroled near Rough & Ready, Georgia. They spent time in prisons at Macon, GA, and Charleston, SC.