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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Preface
Chapter I
John Brown at Harper's
Ferry--The Last Roll Call of His Band--Five Were Iowa Men--A Heroic
Conflict with Overwhelming Numbers--Not a Man Flinched in the
Battle--A Bloody Ending--Fate of the Iowa Men--Stewart Taylor Falls
in the Thickest of the Fight--Jeremiah Anderson of Revolutionary
Ancestors, John Brown's Trusted Friend--Edwin Coppoc Fires the Last
Shot--He Calmly Meets his Doom--Barclay Coppoc, the Boy of Twenty
Escapes--Terrible Sufferings in the Mountains--Capture of John E.
Cook--Barclay Coppoc Reaches Home. Pages 1-14
Chapter II
The Eighth General
Assembly--Governor Lowe's Retiring Message--Governor Kirkwood's
Inaugural Address--Virginia Demands the Surrender of Barclay Coppoc--Governor
Kirkwood Finds a Flaw in the Requisition--Barclay Coppoc
Escapes--Meets Death in Missouri in 1862--The Notable Letter of
Warning--How and Why it was Sent--the Letter and its Author--Acts of
the Eighth General Assembly--A Veto Message. Pages 15-34
Chapter III
Personal Recollections
of the Great Tornado of 1860--Gathering Clouds and Oppressive
Atmosphere--Meeting of the Conflicting Air Currents--The Trailing
Column Descends to the Earth--The Destruction Begins--In the
Tornado's Pathway--Where it Began to Gather--Destruction of Life and
Property Appalling--The Village of Camanche in Ruins--A Summary of
Loss of Life and Property--Estimated Velocity of the Wind--The
Republican National Convention of 1860--Abraham Lincoln Nominated
for President--Democratic National Conventions--The Party Disrupted
and Two Tickets Placed in Nomination--Republican State
Convention--Result of the Election. Pages 35-45
Chapter IV
Effects of John Brown's
Virginia Raid--First Movements Towards Secession--Peace
Conventions--Governor Kirkwood's Suggestions--His Conference with
President Lincoln--Seven Slave States Secede Before Lincoln's
Inauguration--South Carolina Inaugurates the Rebellion--Lincoln's
First Call for Volunteers--Iowa Unprepared for War--The First Iowa
Regiment Promptly Raised Amid Intense Enthusiasm--How the Money was
Raised to Equip the First Regiments--An Extra Session of the Eighth
General Assembly convened--Partisan Consideration Ignored--Union
Democrats Declare for a Vigorous Prosecution of War--Resolutions by
General Baker and R. D. Kellogg-- Governor Kirkwood's
Message--Prompt Action of a Patriotic Legislature. Pages 47-59
Chapter V
Measures for the
Protection of the State from Missouri Invaders and Sioux Indians--
Governor N. B. Baker Appointed Adjutant-General--Political
Conventions of 1861-- Governor Kirkwood Re-elected--Iowa Raises
Sixteen Regiments the First Year--The Ninth General Assembly--The
Victory at Fort Donelson--Four Iowa Regiments with the Victorious
Army--The Indian Massacre in Minnesota--the Northwestern Settlers
Arm for Defense--Military Disasters to the Eastern Union Armies--The
President's Call for Three Hundred Thousand Volunteers--An Extra
Session of the Legislature Called by Governor Kirkwood--Prompt
Action of the General Assembly to Meet the Exigency. Pages 61-76
Chapter VI
The President's
Emancipation Proclamation--Governor Kirkwood Urges the Removal of
General McClellan from Command of the Army--The Political
Conventions of 1862-- Iowa Gains Four Representatives in
Congress--The Democrats Carry the Elections in Many Northern
States--The Union Armies Defeated in the East and Victorious in the
West--Iowa has Forty Regiments in the Field--Copperheads and Knights
of the Golden Circle--They Denounce the Government and Discourage
Volunteering--The So-Called Arbitrary Arrests--George W. Jones,
Dennis Mahony and Henry Clay Dean Imprisoned--Released Without
Trials--The "Tally War" in Keokuk County--Two Thousand Armed Men
Gathered in Camp to Avenge the Death of Tally--The Governor Calls
Out Eleven Military Companies--The Tally Army Dispersed--Outrages on
the Missouri Border--The Murder of Captains Bashore and
Woodruff--The Arrest, Trial and Conviction of Gleason. Pages 77-92
Chapter VII
Iowa Invaded by Missouri
Guerillas--Citizens Robbed and Murdered--Governor Kirkwood Declines
a Third Term--The Dramatic Nomination of Colonel William M.
Stone--The Democratic state Convention of 1863--The Republican
Candidates Elected--Defeats of Union Armies--Gloom and Depression in
the North--The Army of Virginia Under Lee Invades Maryland and
Pennsylvania--Is finally Defeated at Vicksburg--Iowa Regiments Help
to Win all Western Victories--The President Calls for 300,000
Soldiers--The Tenth General Assembly Convenes--Governor Kirkwood's
Last Message--His Services as the War Governor--Inauguration of
Governor Stone-- Re-election of Grimes as United States
Senator--Important Acts of the Legislature-- Disposal of the
Agricultural College Land Grant--State Board of Education
Abolished-- Death Blow to "Wild Cat" Currency. Pages 93-107
Chapter VIII
The President Calls for
500,000 Men--Rosecrans and Banks Meet with Disastrous
Defeats--Thomas and Grant Win Brilliant Victories--General Grant
Promoted to Command the Armies of the United States--Great Rejoicing
in the West--Thirty Thousand "Knights of the Golden Circle" in
Iowa--Governor Stone Issues Stringent Orders to Circumvent Their
Secret Conspiracies----The Political Situation in 1864--Organization
of "Union Leagues"--The Political Conventions of 1864--Their
Platforms and Candidates--Negotiations for Peace--The Political
Campaign--Momentous Issues Involved--Peace Convention at Iowa
City--victory for Lincoln's Administration--More Peace
Negotiations--Fall of Richmond, Surrender of Lee's
Army--Assassination of President Lincoln. Pages 109-128
Chapter IX
First Iowa
Infantry--Placed in the Army of General Lyon--First Long
March--Battle of Wilson's Creek--General Lyon Attacks the Combined
Armies of Price, McCulloch and Jackson--Desperate Engagement with
Superior Numbers--First Iowa in the Thickest of the Fight--Lyon
Leads a Bayonet Charge by the Iowa and Kansas Regiments--He Falls
Mortally Wounded--One of the Most Desperate Battles of the War--The
First Iowa Furnishes Many Distinguished Officers--Organization of
the Second Iowa Infantry--Its Notable First Field Officers--Is Sent
to Missouri and Suffers from Disease--Promotion of its Officers--The
Battle of Fort Donelson--Colonel J. M. Tuttle Leads the Regiment in
a Gallant Charge--Good Service at Shiloh--Commanding Officers Slain
at the Battle of Corinth--In Sherman's Atlanta Campaign--Serves
Until the Close of the War. Pages 131-140
Chapter X
Organization of the
Third Iowa Infantry--Regiment Divided--Battle of the Blue
Mills--Scott Commanded--Severe Fighting and Heavy Loss--The Third at
Shiloh--Fights Under Trumbull at the Hatchie--In Grant's Vicksburg
Campaign--Service in the Atlanta Campaign--Distinguished
Officers--Their Promotions. -- The Fourth Iowa
Infantry--G. M. Dodge its First Colonel--Services at the Battle of
Pea Ridge--In the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou--Fighting of the Iowa
Fourth--Services in the Vicksburg Campaign--In the Battles of
Lookout Mountain and Ringgold--Reception of the Veterans by the Iowa
Legislature--In Sherman's March to the Sea--Losses in Many
Engagements. Pages 141-152
Chapter XI
Fifth Iowa
Infantry--First Service in Missouri--In General Pope's New Madrid
Campaign--Death of Colonel Worthington--Changes in Field
Officers--Fights in Battle of Iuka--Part in Battle of
Corinth--Services at Champion's Hill--In Sherman's
Campaign--Regiment Nearly Annihilated by Hard Fighting--Consolidated
with Fifth Cavalry.
Sixth Iowa
Infantry--Joins General Fremont's Army in Missouri--Transferred to
Grant's Army--Fights at Shiloh--Heavy Loss in the Engagement--In the
Siege and Battle of Jackson--General Lauman's Disastrous Charge--In
the Chattanooga Campaign--In the Battle of Missionary Ridge--In Many
Battles of Sherman's March to the Sea--Northward March to
Washington--Participates in the Grand Review. Pages 153-165
Chapter XII
Organization of the
Seventh Iowa Infantry--Sent to Missouri--Gallant Conduct at the
Battle of Belmont--Lieutenant-Colonel Wentz Killed--In the Battles
of Fort Donelson and Shiloh--Participates in the Two Day's Battle at
Corinth--In the Battles of Sherman's March to the Sea--Members Vote
for Lincoln's Re-election in Georgia--March to Washington by Way of
Richmond. -- Eighth Iowa
Infantry--First Field Officers--Engaged in the Battle of
Shiloh--Surrender After Most Heroic Fighting--The Regiment
Reorganized in 1863--Participates in Grant's Vicksburg Campaign--The
Battle and Surrender of Mobile--Brilliant Charge and Assault on the
Spanish Fort--Iowa Regiments Engaged--Colonel Geddes Promoted. Pages 167-178
Chapter XIII
Ninth Iowa Infantry Sent
to Missouri--Participates in the Battles of Sugar Creek and Pea
Ridge--General Curtis Wins a Great Victory--Bravery of the Iowa
Regiments--Disease and Death in the Swamps--The Ninth in Vicksburg
Campaign--In the Battle of Lookout Mountain--With Sherman's March to
the Sea--Service in the Twenty-four Battles During the War. -- The Tenth Iowa
Infantry--Its First Service in Missouri--Attached to the Army of
General Pope--At the Siege and Victory at Island Number Ten--In the
Battles of Iuka and Corinth--In Grant's Vicksburg
Campaign--Participates in the Battles About Chattanooga--With
Sherman in Campaign in the Southern States. Pages 179-194
Chapter XIV
The Eleventh Iowa
Volunteers--First Service in Missouri--Sent to Grant's Army in
Tennessee--In the Battle of Shiloh--Serves in the Vicksburg
Campaign--With Sherman's Army in March to the Sea--Gallant Conduct
at the Battle of Atlanta--Hoists the Union Colors Over the Capitol
of South Carolina--In the Battle of Bentonsville. -- Twelfth Iowa
Volunteers--Sickness at Benton Barracks--With Grant at the Capture
of Forts Henry and Donelson--Magnificent Fighting at Shiloh--Forced
at Last to Surrender--Suffering in Rebel Prisons--In the Battle of
Tupelo--Gallant Defense of the Stockade on White River--With Thomas
at the Battle of Nashville. Page 195-203
Chapter XV
The Thirteenth Iowa
Volunteers--M. M. Crocker its First Colonel--Engaged in the Battle
of Shiloh--In the Two Days' Battle at Corinth--Participates in the
Vicksburg Campaign--With Sherman's Army in March to the Sea--Gallant
Conduct at the Battle of Atlanta--Hoists the Union Colors Over the
Capitol of South Carolina--In the Battle of Bentonsville.
The Fourteenth Iowa
Volunteers--In the Capture of Fort Donelson--Among Gallant Fighters
at the "Hornet's Nest" in the Battle of Shiloh--Finally Forced to
Surrender--Exchanged in November, 1862--Sent to General Bank's Army
in Louisiana--Capture of Fort De Russey--The Disastrous Red River
Expedition--Colonel Shaw Commands the "Iron Brigade"--Its Heroic
Fighting at Pleasant Hill--Colonel Shaw Criticizes Superiors--Their
Revenge on the Colonel--General A. J. Smith's Tribute to Colonel
Shaw's Patriotism, Courage and Ability. Pages 205-213
Chapter XVI
Fifteenth Iowa
Volunteers--Baptized in Fire at Shiloh--Incorporated in the "Iowa
Brigade"--Belknap Leads the Regiment at Corinth--In the Vicksburg
Campaign--Joins Sherman, Fights at Kenesaw Mountain--The Battle of
Atlanta--Belknap Promoted to Brigadier-General--Participates in Many
Battles. -- The Sixteenth Iowa
Volunteers--First Service at Shiloh--Placed in the "Iowa
Brigade"--In the Battle of Iuka--Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders in
Command--Fight at Corinth--Participates in the Vicksburg
Campaign--In Sherman's Battles Around Atlanta--Surrounded and
Captured--In Andersonville Stockade--Exchanged in September and
Rejoins Sherman's Army. Pages 215-223
Chapter XVII
Seventeenth Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to Halleck's Army at Corinth--With Rosecrans at
Iuka--The Battle of Corinth--Bravery of the Iowa
Seventeenth--Brilliant Services in the Vicksburg Campaign--In
Steele's Expedition Against Little Rock--At the Battles Around
Chattanooga--Defense of Tilton--Colonel Wever Commands Brigade. -- Eighteenth Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to the Army of the Southwest--The Battle of
Springfield--The Disastrous Expedition Under General
Steele--Fighting to Save the Forage Train--Colonel Edwards Promoted. Pages 225--237
Chapter XVIII
Nineteenth Iowa
Volunteers--Becomes a Part of the Army of the Frontier--The Battle
of Prairie Grove--Colonel McFarland Killed Leading His Regiment in a
Charge--One of the Great Victories of the West--At the Siege of
Vicksburg--A Portion of the Regiment Captured at Stirling
Farm--Reunited at New Orleans--Engaged in the Mobile Campaign.
Twentieth
Volunteers--Sent to Southwest Missouri--Hard Marching and Great
Suffering--The Regiment Joins Grant's Army Before
Vicksburg--Transferred to General Bank's Command--Sent to Southern
Texas--In the Mobile Campaign--In the Column that Stormed and
Captured Blakely. Pages 239-250
Chapter XIX
Organization of the
Twenty-first Iowa Volunteers-First Services in Missouri--The Battle
of Hartsville--Sent toe General Grant's Army in Mississippi--At the
Battle of Port Gibson--Makes a Gallant Charge at Black River
Bridge--Lieutenant-Colonel Dunlap Killed--The Regiment Sent to
Texas--Participates in Grierson's Raid an the Mobile Expedition.
Twenty-second Iowa
Volunteers--Joins Grant's Army in the Vicksburg Campaign--In the
Battles of Port Gibson and Black River Bridge--In the Assault of may
22d--Griffith and Others Scale the Walls--Sixteen Iowa Regiments in
the Battle--Magnitude of the Victory at Vicksburg--The Twenty-second
Sent to Virginia--In Sheridan's Battles in Shenandoah
Valley--Traveled More Than 13,000 Miles. Pages 251-263
Chapter XX
Twenty-third Iowa
Volunteers--Death of Colonel Dewey--Joins Grant's Army Before
Vicksburg--Battle of Black River Bridge--Colonel Kinsman
Slain--Battle of Milliken's Bend--Service in Texas and
Louisiana--Participates in the Mobile Campaign. -- Twenty-fourth Iowa
Volunteers--Its Services in Arkansas--Great Suffering from hardship
and Disease--Transferred to Grant's Army--Heroic Charge and Great
Losses at Champion's Hill--Sent to Louisiana After the Fall of
Vicksburg--Joins General Sheridan's Army in Virginia--Captain
Rigby's Coolness in the Winchester Stampede--In the Battles of
Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek--Colonel Wilds Mortally Wounded. Pages 265-277
Chapter XXI
The Twenty-fifth Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to Arkansas and Mississippi--In Sherman's Army at
Chickasaw Bayou--At the Capture of Arkansas Post--Participants in
the Vicksburg Campaign--In the Battle of Lookout Mountain--Attached
to the "Iowa Brigade"--With Sherman's Army in its Southern
Campaign--The Twenty-fifth in Many Battles--At the Capture of
Columbia. -- The Twenty-sixth Iowa
Volunteers--A Clinton County Regiment--The Battle of Arkansas
Post--Services in Mississippi and Tennessee--In the Chattanooga
Campaign--Participates in the Battles of Ringgold, Resaca, Dallas,
Kenesaw Mountain and Atlanta--With Sherman Through the Carolinas. Pages 279-287
Chapter XXII
The Twenty-seventh Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to the Northwestern Frontier--Transferred to
Mississippi--Hard service and Great Suffering in a Winter
Campaign--In Steele's Expedition Against Little Rock--In General
Banks's Red River Campaign--In the Battle of Nashville--Participates
in the Siege and Capture of Blakely. -- The Twenty-eighth Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to Arkansas and Mississippi--A Winter of Sickness,
Suffering and Death--In the Vicksburg Campaign--Bravery at
Champion's Hill--sent to the Department of the Gulf--In Bank's Red
River Expedition--In the Battle of Mansfield--Transferred to
Sheridan's Army in Virginia--In the Battles of Winchester, Fisher's
Hill and Cedar Creek.
Pages 289-298
Chapter XXIII
The Twenty-ninth Iowa
Volunteers--Thomas H. Benton, Colonel--In General Gorman's
Expedition--At the Battle of Helena and the Capture of Little
Rock--The Battle of TerreNoir--Heroic Defense of the Rear Guard at
Jenkin's Ferry.
The Thirtieth Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to Sherman's Army at Chickasaw Bayou--Participates
in the Vicksburg Campaign--Colonel Abbott Slain in the Assault of
May 22d--Colonel Torrence Killed in the Battle--The Iowa Regiments
in the Battles Around Chattanooga--The Thirtieth in Sheridan's
Campaign. Pages 299-309
Chapter XXIV
The Thirty-first Iowa
Volunteers--Services in Arkansas and Mississippi--With Grant in
Vicksburg and Battles Around Chattanooga--Joins Sherman's Army of
Invasion--The Battle of Resaca--In the Battles of Dallas, Kenesaw
Mountain and Atlanta--At Columbia and Bentonsville. -- The Thirty-second Iowa
Volunteers--The Regiment Divided--Battle at Cape
Girardeau--Evacuation of New Madrid--The Regiment Reunited--Sent to
the Department of the Gulf--The Battle of Pleasant Hill--A Graphic
Description of the Conflict--Heroic Fighting of the
Thirty-second--Shaw's Brigade Bears the Brunt of the Battle--Banks
orders a Retreat. Pages 311-323
Chapter XXV
The Thirty-third Iowa
Volunteers--Samuel A. Rice its First Colonel--At Helena and Yazoo
Pass--The Battle of Helena--In the Little Rock and Camden
Expeditions--Colonel Rice Mortally Wounded at Jenkins's Ferry--At
Mobile and New Orleans. -- The Thirty-fourth Iowa
Volunteers--Sickness and Suffering at Helena an Chickasaw
Bayou--Horrors of the Voyage up the Mississippi--Joins Grant's Army
in the Vicksburg Campaign--Services in Louisiana and Texas--Capture
of Forts Gains, Morgan and Powell--the Regiment Consolidated with
the Thirty-eighth. Pages 325-335
Chapter XXVI
The Thirty-fifth Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to General Grant's Department--Serves in
Mississippi and Tennessee--Transferred to the Department of the
Gulf--The Capture of Post at Henderson--In the Battles of Pleasant
Hill and Yellow Bayou--Battle of the Old Red River and Tupelo--The
Battle of Nashville-Iowa Regiments Engaged--Death of Colonel
Hill--The Thirty-fifth at Mobile. -- The Thirty-sixth Iowa
Volunteers--Sickness and Suffering in the Swamps--In the Yazoo
Expedition--In the Battle of Helena and Steele's Expedition--The
Battle of Mark's Mill--Most of the Regiment Captured.
Pages 337-349
Chapter XXVII
The Thirty-seventh Iowa
volunteers--Made up of Men Exempt by Age from Military
Duty--Services on Picket, Guard and Garrison--Patriotic Services
Commended. -- The Thirty-eighth Iowa
Volunteers--At the Siege of Vicksburg--The Regiment Prostrated by
Sickness--In Texas and the Mobile Campaign--Consolidated with the
Thirty-fourth. -- The Thirty-ninth Iowa
Volunteers--Battle of Parker's Cross Roads--In Colonel Straight's
Raid--Gallant Defense of Allatoona--Lieutenant-Colonel Redfield
Slain--In Sherman's March to the Sea. Pages 351-359
Chapter XXVIII
The Fortieth Iowa
Volunteers--Sent to Kentucky and to Mississippi in the Little Rock
Campaign--In the Camden Expedition--The Battle of Jenkins's--The
Disastrous Retreat. -- The Colored Troops from
Iowa--In the Sixtieth U. S. Infantry. -- Capture of Van Buren--In
the Little Rock Campaign--In the Camden Expedition--Five Year's
Services.
The Second Iowa
Cavalry--Sent to General Pope's Department--A Gallant Charge--The
Battle of Boonville--The Grierson Raid--Services in Mississippi and
Tennessee--In the Battle of Nashville. Pages 361-379
Chapter XXIX
The Third Iowa
Cavalry--Services in Missouri--In the Battle of Pea Ridge--In
Grant's Vicksburg Campaign--The Wilson Raid. -- The Fourth Iowa
Cavalry--Sent to Missouri and Arkansas--In the Vicksburg
Campaign--Takes Part in Meridian Expedition--The Battle of Guntown--Serves
Again in Arkansas and Missouri. -- The Fifth Iowa
cavalry--Garrisons Fort Henry--The Rousseau Raid--The Fifth Infantry
Consolidated with the Fifth Cavalry--A Brilliant Charge on Superior
Numbers--In the Wilson Raid. Pages 381-396
Chapter XXX
The Sixth Iowa
Cavalry--Sent to the Northwestern Frontier--A Campaign Against the
Sioux--A Battle with the Indians.
The Seventh Iowa
Cavalry--Services in the Indian Country--In the Battles of White
Stone Hill, Little Blue, Rush Creek and Mud Springs. -- Eighth Iowa
Cavalry--Serves in Kentucky and Tennessee--In the McCook
Expedition--The Battle of Newman--In the Wilson Raid--Death of
Colonel Dorr. -- Ninth Iowa
Cavalry--Services in Arkansas--Scouting and Garrison Duties--The
"Hundred Days Men"--The Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh Volunteer Infantry. Pages 397-408
Chapter XXXI
The Artillery
Service--The First, Second, Third and Fourth Batteries--The Fort
Dodge Cavalry Company--Attached to the Eleventh Pennsylvania
Regiment of Cavalry--Services in Virginia--Andersonville and Other
Confederate Prisons--The Horrors Told by a Confederate Surgeon--A
Roll of Iowa Martyrs--Women's Work in the War--Their Services in
Camp, Hospital and Field--Mrs. J. T. Fales, Mrs. I. K. Miller, Mrs.
Ann E. Harlan, "Aunt Becky" Young and Annie Wittenmyer--The Sanitary
Commission--Coming Home from the War. Pages 409-423
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