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THIRD REGIMENT IOWA VOLUTEER CAVALRY

	The Third Regiment of Iowa Cavalry was organized under the proclamation of 
President Lincoln dated July 23, 1861.  The preliminary organization of the twelve 
companies, which were subsequently assigned to the regiment, had been under the charge 
of Hon. Cyrus Bussey, acting as Aide-de-Camp to Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood, and, 
under the direction of that energetic and capable officer, several of these partially 
organized companies had performed very efficient service in protecting the southern border 
of the State of Iowa from invasion by rebel forces from the State of Missouri.  Upon the 
completion of their organization, the twelve companies were ordered to rendezvous at 
Keokuk, Iowa, and arrived at that place on dates ranging from August 3, to September 13, 
1861.  They were there mustered into the service of the United States by Captain Charles 
C. Smith and Lieutenant Ira K. Knox, of the United States Army, between the dates August 
30 and September 14, 1861.  When the muster was completed, the rolls showed an 
aggregate strength of 1,096 men, rank and file.  Cyrus Bussey was appointed and  
commissioned Colonel of the regiment August 10, 1861.
	Among the files in the office of the Adjutant General of Iowa are several letters 
describing in detail the events connected with the attempted rebel invasion of the State in 
the summer of 1861.  These letters were addressed to Governor Kirkwood by Hon, Cyrus 
Bussey, then acting as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor, and show the methods adopted to 
meet the threatened invasion.  Colonel Bussey had gone to St. Louis and asked General 
Fremont to give him an order for arms and ammunition with which to equip the militia 
companies in that part of the State.  There seemed to be a plentiful supply of ammunition, 
but arms could not at that time be procured as fast as they were needed.  Colonel Bussey 
succeeded in getting 50,000 rounds of ammunition shipped to Keokuk, with the assurance 
that the guns would be shipped as soon as they could be procured.  A day or two later a 
freight train arrived in Keokuk with 1,000 guns, consigned to Colonel G. M. Dodge, at 
Council Bluffs.  Colonel Dodge had gone to Washington and succeeded in procuring these 
arms for his regiment, the Fourth Iowa Infantry, then in rendezvous at Council Bluffs.  
Colonel Bussey, without waiting for instructions, took possession of the guns and 
distributed them to the troops at Keokuk, and they at once marched across the border, 
reinforced the small body of troops, under Colonel Moore, who were bravely resisting the 
advance of the invaders, and won a signal victory over them.  In his letter reporting his 
action to the Governor, Colonel Bussey says: "I an aware that I had no authority over 
United States arms, in transit to arm United States troops, but, without these guns and 
ammunition I had procured, Green could have captured Keokuk and destroyed much 
property.  It was fortunate that the ammunition I had procured at St. Louis was the right 
caliber to fit the guns." The bold, prompt and energetic action of Colonel Bussey, in that 
crisis marked him for the successful leader of men and great enterprises which he 
afterwards became, and made him worthy of the high honor which came to him at the close  
of the war, when he was promoted to the rank of Brevet Major General of Volunteers.  The 
regiment was very fortunate in the selection of Colonel Bussey as it commander.  While he 
had not received a military education, he was a very able man, possessing in a high degree 
the requisite qualifications of a leader of men.  He secured the confidence and respect of 
his officers and men from the day he took command, of the regiment.  The dates of 
appointment and commission of the other field, staff and line officers, together with their 
record and that of every non-commissioned officer and enlisted men in the regiment, from 
the commencement to the close of its service, will be found in the subjoined roster.  The 
roster has been carefully transcribed from the official records, supplemented by such other 
information as it was possible to obtain from reliable sources, and the compiler hopes that 
it will, in the main, be found correct.
	In the following pages, the compiler has endeavored to condense the history of the 
regiment into a description of the most conspicuous features of its service.  With the wealth 
of material at his command, included in the official reports extending over the long period 
of its service, it would have been a much less arduous task to have written an extended 
history than to condense it into the narrow limits rendered necessary by the magnitude of 
the work and the giving to each organization an approximately equal amount of space. 
	On the 4th of November, 1861, the regiment was ordered to proceed to Benton 
Barracks, near St. Louis, Mo., where it arrived on the 6th.  Before leaving the State it had—
by the persistent effort and energy of colonel Bussey—been provided with the necessary 
camp equipage and horses, but did not receive arms until its arrival at Benton Barracks, 
and then was compelled to take the field armed only with sabers and revolvers.  The 
carbine, or revolving rifle, so necessary for the complete armament of a cavalryman, was 
not supplied until the regiment had been in active service for a long time.
	On  the 12th of December, 1861, the Second Battalion, consisting of four companion, 
undr command of Major H. C. Caldwell, was ordered to Jefferson City, Mo.  Owing to the 
fact that this battalion did not rejoin the other eight companies of the regiment for nearly 
two years, during which time it performed most important and arduous service, the 
compiler finds it impossible to give a connected history of the operation of the regiment as 
a complete organization; he will, therefore, proceed to give an account of the operations of 
the battalion which was the first to take the field, covering the time until the regiment was 
reunited at Benton, Ark., early in October, 1863; and the description of the operations of 
the other two battalions, covering the same period of time, will then be given, followed by 
the operation of the regiment as a whole.  The official report of Major Caldwell, covering 
the period to October 28, 1862, is here given in full:		
		
		   HEADQUARTER SECOND BATTALION, THIRD IOWA CAVALRY,
							Camp near Lebanon, Mo., Oct 28, 1862.
To N. B. BAKER, Adjutant General, State of Iowa.
	GENERAL:  I herewith transmit to you a memorandum of the service of the Second 
Battalion, Third Iowa Cavalry.  This battalion, composed of company E, Captain George 
Duffield; Company F, Captain B. F. Crall, since resignation of Captain A. M. Robinson; 
Company G, Captain E. Mayne; Company H, Captain Jesse Hughes, under my command, 
was ordered into the field from Benton Barracks, December 12, 1861, proceeded to 
Jefferson City, and from thence to Booneville, Glasgow, and into the country adjacent.  In 
the course of this expedition, one hundred and seventy-three kegs of powder were captured 
from the enemy.  On December 25th, were stationed at Fulton, Callaway Co., Mo., and 
were engaged constantly during the winter and ensuing spring in scouting, capturing and 
dispersing rebels and rebel gangs, and securing quantities of ammunition from the enemy 
which had been secreted for future use.  In the spring detachments of my command were 
stationed in the counties of Callaway, Audrain and Monroe.  In the forepart of the summer 
these counties were constituted a sub-district under my command.
	On the 31st day of May, I proceeded with detachments of Companies G and F, under 
command of Lieutenants McCrary and Hartman, respectively, to attack a rebel camp on 
Salt River.  At the first intimation of our approach, the rebels fled precipitately; we 
wounded several, captured all their horses, camp equipage, and part of their arms.  Our 
casualties were two men, of Company G, wounded.  On the 22d day of July, 1862, 
detachments of Companies F and G, under command of Lieutenants Stidger and Hartman 
with sixty men, encountered the rebel Porter three hundred strong at Florida, in Monroe 
County; notwithstanding the great disparity in numbers, the detachment fought the rebels 
gallantly for one hour, when they were forced to fall back upon the post of Paris; three 
rebels were killed, and many wounded.  Our casualties were twenty-two men wounded and 
two take prisoners.  On the 24th day of July, 1862, with one hundred men, encountered the 
rebel with his force of about four hundred men, strongly posted in the dense brush on the 
"Botts" farm in Monroe County.  Killed one rebel and wounded many others.  Our 
casualties were one man killed.  Captain B. F. Crall, of Company F, and nine men 
wounded.  Porter fled south into Callaway, whither we pursued.
	On the 27th day of July, 1862, one hundred men of the Ninth Missouri S. M. and 
fifty men of Company E,, under command of Captain Duffield of Company E, drove the 
rebel Porter with his force, which had been augmented to nearly eight hundred men, from 
Brown's Springs in Callaway County.  He retreated in the direction of Moore's Mill.  On 
July 28th a detachment of Missouri S. M. Merrill's Horse, and of this Battalion, with a 
section of the Third Indiana Battery, all under command of Colonel Guitar, encountered 
Porter in a tong position in a dense thicket near Moore's Mill in Callaway county.  After a 
desperate fight of hour hours the rebels were utterly routed with a loss of thirty killed and 
nearly one hundred wounded; a great many guns and horses fell into our hands.  The 
casualties of this battalion were four men killed and twenty wounded.  Company E of this 
battalion had twenty-seven horses killed.  The rebels fled northward, this battalion with the 
other forces continued in pursuit, and on the 6th day of August found the rebels two 
thousand strong posted in the town of Kirksville, in Adair county.  A severe engagement 
ensued, resulting in a complete rout of the rebels.  Rebel loss one hundred and twenty-eight 
killed, two hundred wounded and forty taken prisoners.  We captured two hundred stands 
of arms and about two hundred horses.  Casualties in this battalion: Killed, Captain E. 
Mayne, Company G; wounded, Captain Jesse Hughes, Company H; Lieutenant M. I. 
Birch, Company H, and ten men.  Battalion continued in pursuit of rebels and rebel hands 
until they were utterly routed and dispersed, when we were ordered to this post where we 
are now stationed.
							Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
									H. C. CALDWELL, Major
								Second Battalion, Third Iowa Cavalry.
	A recapitulation of the losses sustained by the battalion during the campaign shows 
six killed, sixty-five wounded and two captured by the enemy, total seventy-four.  This was 
a heavy percentage of loss—more than thirty per cent of the actual number of the battalion 
able for duty.  There is a slight discrepancy in the official reports as to the loss of the 
detachment of the Third Iowa Cavalry in the battle of Moore's Mill.  Colonel Guitar, the 
senior officer in command, in his official report states that the loss of Major Cladwell's 
battalion was 2 killed and 24 wounded, and that the horses killed belonged almost entirely 
to the Third Iowa Cavalry.  At the battle of Kirksville the loss of the Third Iowa was one-
third of the total loss sustained by all the Union troops engaged.  In his official report 
Colonel John McNeil mentions the gallant conduct of Captain Mayne. Who was killed at 
the head of his command, and also commends the bravery and efficiency of Major 
Caldwell. It will thus be seen that this battalion performed most efficient and gallant 
service in those early days of the war, doing more than its share of the fighting and losing 
more than its proportion of men in the engagements in which it fought in conjunction with 
other troops.  The subsequent operation of this battalion, prior to the time it rejoined the 
regiment, embraced such a wide scope that the compiler finds it impossible to describe 
them in detail, owing to the limited space assigned to this historical sketch.  He therefore 
has recourse to the summarized record of the services of the battalion as given by a well 
known compiler of Iowa military history.
	The rebels in this part of Missouri being utterly dispersed, soon after the affair of 
Kirksville, Major Caldwell reported with his command at Lebanon, a considerable town 
about fifty miles southwest of Rolla.  He was soon afterwards appointed Lieutenant 
Colonel, in place of Trimble, who, having been severely wounded at the battle of Pea 
Ridge, resigned early in September, 1862.  The duties of Lieutenant colonel Caldwell''s 
command in southern Missouri were similar to those which had been done north of the  
river.  By the campaign of Pea Ridge, Missouri had been cleared of rebels in force.  
Subsequently, General Curtis having marched with the Army of the Southwest through 
Arkansas to Helena by Batesville, southwestern Missouri became again uncovered and 
liable to incursions from the insurgents moving through the passes of the Boston 
Mountains.  Where fore, General Schofield, with headquarters at Springfield, eventually 
organized the Army of the Frontier, which covered the State against the threatened attack, 
and in December, by the battle of Prairie Grove, warded off the principal danger.  
Nevertheless, Missouri was perturbed, and restless as the waters of a boiling caldron.  Her 
Union citizens were harassed, galled, murdered by bands of roving guerrillas, and 
frequently considerable bodies of troops made forays into the State.  It may readily be 
believed, therefore, that it was a difficult as well as dangerous task to protect our long lines 
of communications to the frontier army.  This service also involved the keeping down of 
outbreaks and the covering of a frontier from the Iron mountains of Missouri to the Boston 
Mountains of Arkansas.  In this important line of duty Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell was 
engaged for several months, his command augmented by Companies L and M, which did 
not join in Curtis' march through Arkansas, being constantly engaged in fatiguing service, 
and oftentimes meeting the enemy in skirmish of in battle.  A detachment of his command 
was engaged at the sharp battle of Hartsville in January 1863, and in a number of affairs of 
lesser note his troops acquitted themselves, but of no such general interest as to meet with 
much public notice till the summer of 1863, when it joined the cavalry division under 
General Davidson in the campaign of Little Rock.  Moving by Pilot Knob, the detachment 
marched into Arkansas near the southeastern corner of Missouri, and thence, moving 
southward, joined the column under Steel near the White River, and took prominent part 
thenceforth in the operations which resulted in the capture of Little Rock.  Afterwards, the 
command was actively engaged in movements in the direction of Camden, and performed 
services both valuable and brilliant.
	The official reports and correspondence in which Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell and 
his detached command are mentioned—always most favorably—are numerous, and the 
compiler regrets that his limitation of space will not permit him to make further quotations 
from them.
	On February 4, 1862, the eight companies composing the first and third battalions of 
the regiment, under command of Colonel Cyrus Bussey, were ordered to proceed from 
Benton Barracks to Rolla, Mo., at which place the arrived on the 6th.  A few days later 
orders were received from General Halleck to detail two companies to garrison the post at 
Salem, Mo., twenty-five miles southeast of Rolla.  Companies I and K, under command of 
Major William C. Drake, were selected for this duty and, like the Second Battalion, were 
destined to a long separation from the rest of the regiment.  On February 11, 1862, Colonel 
Bussey received an order from General Curtis, couched in the following language: "Come 
on by short route; make forced marches to overtake me."  The commander of the post at 
Rola telegraphed General Halleck, asking to have General Curtis' order countermanded, as 
he was apprehensive of an attack and needed all the troops then at the post to defend it.  
Other troops were forwarded to take the place of the cavalry companies and, on the 
morning of February 14th, colonel Bussey left Rolla with the remaining six companies of 
his regiment.  The weather was very cold, the roads were bad, forage was scarce, and this 
first long march was impending, Colonel Bussey pushed forward, night and day, only 
making brief halts to enable them to procure food for themselves and horses, and reached 
Springfield, only to find the army gone.  Leaving Company L, as a garrison at Springfield, 
the march was continued with the remaining five companies until the night of the 18th, 
when, after a march of over two hundred miles in four days, Colonel Bussey joined the 
army of General Curtis at Sugar Creek, Ark., with Companies A, B, C, D and M, of the 
Third Iowa Cavalry.  After a brief rest, the detachment accompanied an expedition to 
Fayetteville, Ark., which captured that town, drove out a force of the enemy, killed one 
man and captured fifty.
	From the 22d of February to the 4th of March the detachment was kept upon the 
move, reconnoitering towards the Boston Mountains, where the enemy were concentrating 
a large force.  On the night of the 5th of March, the enemy, 40,000 strong, were reported 
advancing.  The army was ordered back to Sugar Creek, a distance of twelve miles.  
General Sigel's division, while falling back in obedience to orders, on the morning of 
March 6th was attacked by the enemy, and the cavalry brigade, commanded by Colonel 
Bussey, )of which the five companies of the Third Iowa Cavalry formed a part.) was 
ordered to reinforce him.  The brigade moved promptly and soon met the wounded which 
were being sent to the rear.  This was the first experience of the detachment under fire.  A 
running fight ensued and was kept up until the enemy abandoned the pursuit, within a few 
miles of the position occupied by the rest of the army at Sugar Creek.  In this engagement 
the loss was considerable on both sides.
	On the morning of March 7, 1862, the hard fought battle of Pea Ridge began.  The 
official report of colonel Cyrus Bussey shows how gallantly the five companies of the 
Third Iowa Cavalry fought during the battle, and the important service they rendered in the 
subsequent pursuit of the enemy.  Besides the five companies, A. B. C. D and M, of the 
third Iowa Cavalry, consisting of two hundred and thirty-five men and officers, the 
Colonel, as the ranking officer of the brigade, had under his command during the battle the 
following forces: The Benton Hussars, under command of Colonel Nemett; four companies 
of the First Missouri Cavalry, under command of Colonel Ellis; two companies of the 
Fremont Hussars, under command of Lieutenant Howe, and three guns of Captain Elbert's 
battery.  His report describes at length and with particularity of detail all the movements of 
his command during the battle and the pursuit which followed.  The report covers the 
operations of all the troops under his command, the following extracts referring only to the 
most conspicuous portion of the service rendered by the companies of his own regiment.
	After describing the preparatory movements and the taking of positions assigned to 
the different organizations of his command, Colonel Bussey thus describes the opening of 
the battle in his front:
	At this point we came within full view of the enemy's cavalry passing along about a 
half mile distant to the north.  No other force being discovered, the three guns were 
immediately advanced by General Osterhaust, who was present and in command, about 
two hundred yards, and immediately opened fire on the cavalry of the enemy on the road to 
the northwest.  One company of the First Missouri Cavalry was in line of battle on the left 

of the guns and one company of the same troops on the right.  The companies of the Third 
Iowa Cavalry were formed in line of battle in rear of the guns, parallel with the road and 
facing to the north.  While forming the Benton Hussars in line of the right of the Third 
Iowa Cavalry and facing the west, I was ordered by General Osterhaus to send two 
companies of the Third Iowa Cavalry down the road to the west, to charge the enemy's line 
at a point supposed to be about a half mile distant.  This order was communicated by me to 
Lieutenant Colonel Trimble, who  immediately advanced with columns of fours, which 
was necessary, the road leading along a fence on the south and thick brush and woods on 
the north.  The Benton Hussars were now in line about one hundred yards to the right and 
rear of the battery of three guns, and the Fremont Hussars were yet in column of fours at 
the edge of the prairie, having just arrived on the ground.  The Third Iowa Cavalry 
galloped down the road, and going beyond the edge of the woods or timber on the west 
side of the prairie they unexpectedly found themselves in front of several lines of infantry 
heretofore unseen, and who were drawn up in line to the front and right of our men, at 
short musket range….The companies of the Third Iowa Cavalry were immediately 
wheeled into line facing the enemy, it being impossible for them to advance to column 
farther, when they at once received a deadly fire from the near and overwhelming numbers 
of the foe, who were also partly concealed and protected by the woods and brush.  A large 
number of my men and horses were here killed and wounded, and Lieutenant Colonel 
Trimble, at the head of the column, was severely wounded in the head. This fire was 
returned by the Third Iowa Cavalry from their revolvers with considerable effect.  Just at 
the moment a large force of the enemy's cavalry charged from the north upon different 
portions of our cavalry line, and, passing through the lines, went into the fields in or rear.  
The Third Iowa Cavalry companies now charged this cavalry force, and an exciting 
running cavalry fight ensued between those forces, the enemy fleeing and being pursued by 
my men to the south.  The enemy was followed in this large open fields.  The loss of the 
enemy in this funning fight was very heavy, and estimated by me, from the most reliable 
information I have been able to obtain, at eighty-two.
	After seeing the cavalry mentioned in line, I sent Adjutant Noble, who had remained 
with me on the field during the whole time, to bring up the companies of the Third Iowa 
Cavalry in our new position, they having pursued the enemy through the fields as above 
stated and not yet made their appearance.  He soon returned with all the companies, having 
met them coming in perfect order to the place desired, the companies having returned 
towards the camping ground, Major Perry being in command (Lieutenant Colonel Trimble 
having been wounded early in the engagement as heretofore mentioned).  The enemy 
immediately advanced to the western edge of the field in which our new position was 
taken, when a general engagement ensued…..A force of the enemy made their appearance 
evidently endeavoring to turn our left flank.  I sent the Third Iowa Cavalry to support 
Colonel Ellis.  When out force appeared the enemy withdrew, were followed by Colonel 
Ellis about two miles, and did not again show themselves in this quarter….The Third Iowa 
Cavalry were then formed in line of battle immediately in rear of the artillery to conduct a 
battery to 43-3nforce General Carr, who was still engaged on the right.  I went with them. 
Leaving the remainder of the cavalry force under the command of General Osterhaus.  This 
was at 5 o'clock P. M.  The accompanying report of the killed, wounded and missing of the 
Third Iowa Cavalry is hereby referred to as part of this report.  The loss of the other forces 
will be reported to you by their immediate commanders….On reporting to General Carr, in 
pursuance of the order requiring me to do so, my companies took position on the right in 
rear of our batteries, where we remained until after the darkness of night closed the action 
of the 7th.  On the morning of the 8th, pursuant to order to take position on the right flank, 
where the enemy was expected to attack.  This position was held by my command, with 
other cavalry forces, until the retreat of the enemy after the middle of the day.  In 
pursuance of your direct order, my command, at 2 o'clock P. M., started in pursuit of the 
enemy towards Keetsville, on the road leading east, and continued to be thus engaged until 
night.  I too fifty-nine prisoners, with some horses and arms, on this expedition…
	It conclusion, I beg leave to express my satisfaction with the conduct of own men, 
who, in their first action, having been the first and most directly of the cavalry forces 
engaged with the enemy, and suffered a severe loss from an unexpected fire, yet evinced 
great coolness and courage in their attack upon the foe; and although the loss of my 
command is greater in proportion to my force than perhaps, any other engaged, being 
twenty-four killed, seventeen wounded, and nine missing, out of two hundred thirty-five 
men and officers, yet it was retaliated upon the rebels by a loss to them of double that 
number.  You will preceive that eight of my men were scalped.  That their brave comrades 
fighting in support of our national banner, the emblem of all that is good and great in the 
present civilization of the world, should thus be butchered and mangled by rebel savages 
has excited among my men indignation that will, I assure you, exhibit itself on every field 
where they may in future be allowed to engage the enemy, in a relentless determination to 
put doen the flag that calls to its support bands of rapacious and murdering Indian 
mercenaries.  I have to acknowledge valuable assistance rendered me in the 7th by Adjutant 
John W. Noble, who acted that day as my Aide….
	Appended to this report is the following supplementary report of the Adjutant:
	The killed were buried on Saturday after the battle was over and the pursuit ended.  
Hearing it reported by me men that several of the killed had been found scalped.  I had the 
dead exhumed, and on personal examination I found that it was a fact beyond dispute that 
eight of the killed of my command had been scalped.  The bodies of many of them showed 
unmistakable evidence that the men had been murdered after they were wounded; that first 
having fallen in the charge from bullet wounds, they were afterwards pierced through the 
heart and neck with knives by a savage and relentless foe.  I then had the bodies re-
interred, each in a separate grave, properly marked.
						By order of
							COLONEL CYRUS BUSSEY.
							JOHN W. NOBLE, Adjutant.

There were numerous other official statements and affidavits corroborating those of 
Colonel Bussey and Adjutant Noble, as to the commission of these atrocities by Indians 
who were regularly enrolled in the rebel army.  The five companies of the regiment had 
acquitted themselves with credit in this great battle.  They had demonstrated their ability to 
endure hardships and their willingness to perform their whole duty under the most adverse 
conditions.  On the 12th of March, 1862. Companies D and M were ordered to proceed to 
Rolla as guards to prisoners sent to that place.  They performed the march of three hundred 
miles and returned to Springfield, arriving there on the 1st of April.  On April 30th, 
Company D returned to the detachment with General Curtis' army under Major C. H. 
Perry, who was assigned to the command of that post.  These companies were employed 
constantly during the summer guarding trains from Rolla to Springfield and had several 
encounter with the enemy, in all of which they were victorious.  In the meantime, 
Companies I and K had been stationed at Salem, Mo., from which place they performed 
important service, which may be summarized as follows: Scout of detachment of twenty-
five men, under command of Adjutant Cutler, to the head of the Marvamee, a distance of 
fifty miles; encountered a force of the enemy and captured eighteen rebels, including a 
captain and lieutenant.
	On the 20th of February, 1862, Major Drake with his command attacked a 
force under the rebel Colonel Coleman, at West Plains, Mo., killing and wounding twenty-
five men and capturing sixty prisoners and a large number of horses and arms.  Between 
the 20th and 28th, these companies were scouting the country and almost, every day had 
encounters with the enemy.  On the 9th of March, 1862, Major Drake's detachment joined 
the battalion of the Sixth Missouri Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Wood and 
a few days later, these two detachments started in pursuit of a rebel force, which they 
overtook near Spring River Mills, just across the border in Arkansas.  After a severe 
engagement the rebel force was defeated with t loss on the Union side of three killed and 
twenty-one wounded and a loss to the rebels estimated at one hundred.  In his official 
report of this engagement, Lieutenant Colonel Wood makes special mention of the gallant 
conduct of Major Drake, Adjutant Cutler and other of the Third Iowa Cavalry detachment.  
Major Drake rejoined the regiment with his detachment about the 1st of April near Forsyth, 
Mo. The companies of the regiments now attached to General Curtis' army were kept 
actively employed in scouting, from the 6th of April to the 1st of May, while that army was 
on the march by way of Cassville, Forsyth, Osage, and West Plains and Salem, to 
Batesville, a distance of nearly three hundred miles, over mountains and rivers, and 
through a country almost destitute of supplies.  The regiment made numerous expeditions, 
watching the movements of the enemy, but no coming into contact with any considerable 
force until May 30th, on which date it had it severe skirmish with a rebel force at Sylamore, 
fifty miles from Batesville, on White River.  The enemy was defeated with considerable  
loss, including twenty-five prisoners, fifty horses, arms and other property.  The loss of the 
Third Iowa Cavalry was as follows:  Sergeant S. B. Millan, killed; Captain Israel Anderson 
and Private Joseph T. French, severely wounded.
	On the 1st of June, the Third Iowa Cavalry was assigned to the First Division, 
commanded by General Steele, and ordered to Sulphur Rock, where it remained until June 
22d, when it was ordered to Jacksonport, from which place on June 27th, Lieutenant Alvin 
H. Griswold, with twenty men of Company K, was detailed to guard a forage train and, 
while engaged on this duty, was attacked by a party of the enemy concealed in ambush 
near the road over which the train was passing.  Lieutenant Griswold and his small force 
made a gallant resistance and saved the train from capture, but nearly one-half of the 
detachment were killed and wounded.  Those killed were Lieutenant Alvin H. Griswold, 
Corporal Thomas Wasson and Private Richard Leike; the wounded were James M. 
Beacom, Edwin Beckwith, Wesley Pringle, James Marsh, and Marcus Packard.  In 
officially reporting this loss, Colonel Bussey says: " Lieutenant Grisold was a most faithful 
and efficient officer, and a gentleman, whose loss will be deeply felt by a large circle of 
friends in the regiment and in Iowa, where he leaves a wife and two children."
On the 1st of July the army again advanced.  The Third Iowa Cavalry was kept well 
to the front and had its full share of duty in scouting and skirmishing.  On the 7th, Matthew 
D. Williams, of Company C, was killed.  On the 8th, the army arrived at Clarendon.  The 
weather was intensely hot, the supply of ration nearly exhausted, the water was bad, and 
the soldiers suffered greatly from sickness and the neat.  Co;onel Bussey was now in 
command of the Third Brigade, First Division, and Major Drake was in command of the 
regiment.  The army left Clarendon July 11th and, in three days, reached Helena.  During 
the remainder of the summer the regiment was engaged in scouting the country from White 
River to the St. Francis, having frequent skirmishes, but meeting no considerable force of 
the enemy.  On the 10th of September the regiment was transferred to First Brigade of the 
Division and, on Oct 1, was transferred to First Brigade of the Division and on October 1, 
was transferred to the Third Brigade of the fourth Division.  During the months of 
September, October and November, the regiment was very actively engaged, marched 
several hundred miles, and captured many prisoners and a large number of horses and other 
valuable property.
	On the 20th of September the Third Iowa Cavalry formed a part of a force of two 
thousand cavalry under command of Colonel Bussey.  This force was attached to the troops 
under General Hovey in his expedition against Arkansas Post.  The expedition involved 
great hardship, Colonel Bussey's force marching through almost impassable cypress 
swamps to Prairie Landing, on White River, where he expected to meet the troops of 
General Hovey., which were being conveyed on transports; through, opwing to low water, 
the latter could not get up the river, and the original plan of the expedition was abandoned.  
Colonel Bussey'' force marched back through the swamps to Montgomery's Point and 
from thence to Helena, where he joined the army under General Steele.  He then crossed 
the Mississippi River at Friar's Point and advanced by way of Coldwater to Grenada, 
where he burned the railroad bridge and destroyed a portion of the track, thus inflicting 
great damage to the enemy's line of transportation.  On his return he was attacked by a 
force of the enemy near Panola and, after a severe skirmish, defeated him.  In this skirmish 
Company D, of the Third Iowa Cavalry, lost four men, captured by the enemy.  The 
command was again attacked near Coldwater, but drove off the enemy and arrived at 
Helena after an absence of two weeks.  A large number of horses were captured on this 
expedition.
	The army was reorganized on the 16th of December, by General Gorman, who had 
assumed command at Helena.  The Third Iowa Cavalry was transferred to the Second 
Cavalry Division of the Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General C. C. 
Washburne, and, with five others, formed the Second Brigade of that division.  On the 10th 
of January, 1863, the army was ordered to proceed against Little Rock, Ark., but just as the 
division was ready to march, the order was countermanded, so far as Colonel Bussey's 
command was concerned, he having been assigned to the command of the District of 
Eastern Arkansas.  Major William C. Drake died of disease on the 24th of November.  By 
his death the regiment lost a faithful brave and accomplished officer.  The command of the 
regiment then devolved upon Major O. H. P. Scott.  During the winter the regiment 
performed its usual work of scouting and watching the movements of the enemy, but it was 
not until the 5th of March that any considerable force was encountered.  Upon that date the 
regiment routed a considerable force near Madison, Ark., and captured a number of 
prisoners.  On the 4th of April, Lieutenant Niblack, Company D, with twenty-five men 
charged a rebel force at Madison, killed and wounded a number and captured fifty-six 
prisoners.  The remainder of the rebel force. Over one hundred, was driven off.  In the 
charge Lieutenant Niblack was severely wounded.  With the prisoners, horses, arms and 
other property were captured.
	Major General Prentiss was now in command of the army at Helena.  On the 6th of 
April, 1863, Colonel Bussey, who had commanded all the brigades with which his 
regiment had served, was assigned to the command of the Second Cavalry Division, Army 
of the Tennessee, relieving General Washburne, who was ordered to Memphis.  The rebels 
were concentrating in force on White River and their scouting parties were frequently seen 
in the vicinity of Helena.  When not on scouting duty, the regiment, under the direction of  
Major Scott, was engaged in strengthening the defense of Helena.  On the 21sst and 27th of 
April, detachments of the regiment had skirmishes with scouting parties of the enemy.  On 
May 1, Captain J. Q. A. De Huff, of Company B, with one hundred and sixty men of the 
Third Iowa Cavalry, was sent on an expedition to the town of La Grange, for the purpose 
of observing the movements of the enemy.  When within a mile of the town, Captain De 
Huff's detachment encountered a force of the enemy posted in the woods on either side of 
the road.  A brisk engagement ensued and, just as the enemy in front were beginning to 
give way, another force of the enemy's cavalry charged the rear of the detachment, thus 
putting them between two fires of an over-whelming force.  In this desperate situation 
Captain De Huff realized the danger of the capture of his entire command.  The following 
extract from his official report will show how the engagement terminated:
	My force had expended their revolver and most of their carbine fire, and it became 
evident I must retire or be completely overwhelmed.  I got my men into column and 
directed them to the left, falling back through the timber a distance of some three miles.  
The enemy pursued with vigor, but were kept in fear of too near approach by the firing of 
the reloaded carbines of my rear guard.  Some of my men were also able to reload their 
revolvers and discharge them at the enemy.  Making a circuit I again came to the La 
Grange road, to the rear of the place of attack about four miles.  My men had become  
somewhat scattered, and, on coming into the La Grange road, I retired toward Helena, until 
reinforced by the remainder of the regiment and the Fifth Kansas Cavalry.  We then 
advanced to the place of conflict, and found the enemy had fled, taking with them their 
dead and wounded.  The loss on our side was three killed, eight wounded, thirty missing—
probably taken prisoners,--total forty-one.  Among the wounded are Regimental Adjutant 
Glenn Lowe and Second Lieutenant Cornelius A. Stanton, Company I.  A list of the 
officers and men killed, wounded and missing accompanies this report.  My advanced 
guard-twenty-nine men of Company D under command of Lieutenant Niback—deserve 
particular notice for the manly stand they made against the enemy, whose hottest fire they 
withstood with the most determined bravery.  Lieutenant Stanton was at the head of the 
column, and fearlessly assailed the enemy with his command-Company I.  He was 
wounded in his left arm very severely early in the engagement, and from loss of blood was 
compelled to retire from the field.  Adjutant Glenn Lowe was also at the head of the 
column, and throughout this uneven contest displayed a heroism of an unusual character.  
His horse was shot from under him as soon as he came up with the enemy.  He at once 
mounted another and, as the attack in the rear commenced, drew his saber and encouraged 
our men with his voice.  At this time he was shot through the ankle and afterwards fell into 
the hands of the enemy, who treated him with kindness and left him in a neighboring house 
without paroling him.  Sergeant Breeding, Company A, and Corporal Birdsall, Company 
B, attacked a party of the enemy who had five prisoners and killing two of the rebels, 
released our men, who thus escaped.  Many minor skirmishes took place during our retreat, 
in all of which a continuous resistance was made, with fatal effect to the enemy.  I do not 
desire to give particular praise when all did as well as men could do against such odd, and I 
have only to regret that my force was not greater.  With the valor or my men I am satisfied.  
The loss inflicted on the enemy was not less than forty men killed and wounded.  Many of 
their dead were seen upon the field.
	On the 25th of May, Lieutenant McKee, Company B, with fifty men of Companies A 
and B, encountered the enemy in superior force seven miles from Helena and sustained a 
loss of five men wounded and two missing.  The official report of Lieutenant McKee 
shows how well the honor of the regiment was sustained in that engagement.
	The headquarters of the regiment had now been located at Helena for about eleven 
months. Colonel Bussey was anxious to have his regiment transferred to General Grant's 
army, at Vicksburg, and had made frequent requests for such transfer.  On the 4th of June, 
1863, the long wished for order came and the regiment, with its camp equipaged and 
horses, was soon embarked on transports, which landed at Snyder's Bluff on June 8th.  
Upon his arrival, Colonel Bussey was assigned to the position of Chief of Cavalry and 
immediately entered upon the discharge of his important duties.  The rebel army, under 
General Johnston, was concentrating along Black River and watching for the opportune 
moment (which never cam) to hurl his forces on the rear of Grant's army and raise the 
siege of Vicksburg.  The gigantic struggle for the possession of that mighty stronghold was 
in progress, and constant and unremitting activity was required of all the troops.  From the 
day the Third Iowa Cavalry disembarked until the surrender of Vicksburg, the officers and 
men had but brief intervals of rest.  They were almost constantly in the saddle, scouting the 
country along the Big Black, guarding the fords and ferries and keeping watchful eyes 
upon the movements of the enemy.  It was the running point in the great conflict, and every 
nerve was being strained—on both sides—to achieve the victory which meant either the 
triumph of the rebellion or the beginning of its certain defeat and the absolute assurance of 
a restored Union.
	Upon the surrender of Vicksburg (July 4, 1863,) a cavalry brigade, composed of the 
Third and Fourth Iowa, Second Wisconsin and Fifth Illinois, under command of Colonel 
Cyrus Bussey of the Third Iowa Cavalry, crossed the big Black River at Messinger's Ferry, 
and at once took the advance of the army, under command of General Sherman, which 
General Grant had ordered to proceed against the rebel army commanded by General 
Johnston.  From the morning of the 6th to the 11th of July, Colonel Bussey's command was 
constantly at the front, covering the movements of the infantry and artillery in his rear, 
having daily skirmishes with the enemy's cavalry, until the rebel army was driven into it 
intrenchments at Jackson.  While General Sherman's army was prosecuting the siege of 
Jackson. Colonel Bussey's cavalry command, acting under the orders of General Sherman, 
had proceeded to destroy a portion of the railroad to the north of the enemy's works, and 
then march in the direction of Canton, twenty-five miles further to the north, and, in 
conjunction with a force of infantry and artillery, engaged the enemy, driving him into 
Canton on the night of July 17th.  That night the enemy evacuated Canton, and the next 
morning Colonel Bussey marched into the town with his command, and proceeded to 
destroy factories and machine shops, which had been engaged in the manufacture of 
equipments for the rebel army, also a large number of cars and locomotives which had 
been used in transporting supplies for the rebels.  A part of Colonel Bussey's command	
Was sent to destroy the railroad bridge over the Big Black River, together with the railway 
property at Way's Bluff, which was successfully accomplished, and the command was 
again concentrated at Canton that night.  The next day Colonel Bussey marched with his 
command to Messinger's Ferry and went into camp.  From the 5th to the 20th of July, the 
Third Iowa Cavalry had performed a series of important operations, as a part of the brigade 
under the command of its gallant Colonel Bussey, and had received his earnest 
commendation for the prompt and skillful manner in which it had executed all his orders.  
Had the record of the regiment ended with that glorious campaign, its fame and that of its 
gallant Colonel would have been secure.
	The official report of Colonel Bussey, as Chief of Cavalry, while covering the 
movements of all the cavalry forces during this history making period, show that the Third 
Iowa Cavalry performed its full share of duty and fully sustained the good record it had 
made by its previous service.  At the conclusion of his report Colonel Bussey acknow-
ledges the valuable service rendered him by Captain H. D. B. Cutler, A. A. A. G., and 
Lieutenant D. E. Jones, A. A. Q. M., of his staff, both of whom were officers of the Third 
Iowa Cavalry.
	The operation of the regiment connected with the campaign and siege of Vicksburg 
covered the period from June 8th to August 10, 1863.  The latter date found the regiment 
encamped upon the bank of the Big Black River, in rear of Vicksburg, where it remained 
until August 10th, in the enjoyment of a well earned rest.  Major Scott, having resigned, the 
regiment was now under the command of Major Noble.
	On the 110th of August the regiment was again upon the march, attached to an 
independent cavalry brigade composed of the Third and Fourth Iowa and Fifth Illinois 
regiments, under command of Colonel E. F. Winslow, of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry.  Major 
John W. Noble in his official report fully describes the operations of his regiment on this 
important expedition.  The total strength of the brigade was but eight hundred men, but the 
damage they inflicted upon the enemy, in killed, wounded and prisoners, and the 
destruction of rolling stock of the Mississippi Central Railroad, was very great and our of 
all proportion of the loss sustained by the brigade, which was only two killed, five 
wounded and six missing.  The casualties in the Third Iowa Cavalry were four men 
wounded.  The brigade marched two hundred sixty-five miles, mostly through country 
occupied by the enemy, arriving at Memphis, Aug. 22, 1863.  On the 26th of August the 
regiment embarked at Memphis with orders to return to Vicksburg, but on reaching 
Helena, was ordered to disembark and report to General Steele, then on the march with his 
army to Little Rock, Ark.  The regiment marched from Helena, by way of Clarendon and 
reached Little Rock (which had been occupied by General Steele's army on the 10th of 
September) on the 1st day of October, and was ordered to proceed immediately to Benton, 
Ark., an important outpost of the army, occupied by the other six companies of the 
regiment, and commanded by Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Caldwell.  Here the entire twelve 
companies were reunited, after a separation of nearly two years.  The cordial greetings 
exchanged by these war-worn soldiers and the intense interest with which they listed to 
each others' description of the trials and dangers through which they had passed during this 
long period of separation may well be imagined.
	The duties performed by the regiment at this outpost were arduous.  Forage trains 
requiring heavy guards were sent out almost daily, and detachments were frequently sent 
on scouting expeditions extending forty to fifty miles into the surrounding country.  On the 
27th of October the regiment was ordered to reinforce the post at Pine Bluffs, and arrived at 
that place after a day and night march.  The enemy had been repulsed and was then moving 
toward Arkadelphia.  The regiment followed, surrounded the town and captured a number 
of prisoners, arms, horses, mules and wagons, belonging to the rear guard, but the main 
body of the enemy succeeded in escaping.  Early in November, the regiment engaged in an 
expedition of the purpose of bringing into the Federal lines several hundred refugees—
loyal citizens of Arkansas, who had banded together and taken refuge in the mountains to 
escape the rebel conscription.  Nearly three hundred men and horses were brought out from 
their hiding places.  These men were glad to be given the opportunity to enlist in the Union 
army.  During this expedition the regiment captured a rebel Major with twenty-five 
soldiers of his command.  During the month of November Colonel Bussey commanded the 
cavalry division, (General Davidson being absent,) but, upon the General's return, on the 
1st of December, Colonel Bussey resumed command of the First Brigade and the Post at 
Benton.  On the 10th of December he conducted an expedition to Princeton, where a force 
of the enemy was encountered, several of who were killed and wounded and thirty 
prisoners captured.  On the 20th of December, having exhausted all the forage in the 
country, the post of Benton was evacuated and the regiment, with the brigade, returned to 
Little Rock.
	On the 1st of January, 1864, more than six hundred men of the regiment re-enlisted 
for three years as veteran volunteers.  This number embraced nearly all the men who were 
at that time present and able for duty.  A few days later the regiment was relieved from 
duty and provided with transportation to Iowa.  Keokuk was designated as the place at 
which the men were to receive their furloughs should end, the time being limited to Thirty 
day.  On the 12th of February the men left Keokuk for their respective homes and on the 
12th of March, had reassembled at Keokuk, bringing with them seven hundred recruits for 
the regiment, which was immediately ordered to proceed to St. Louis, and, upon it arrival 
there, was provided with a new and complete equipment of arms, horses and everything 
necessary for active service in the field.  The aggregate strength of the regiment was now 
greater than when it first left the State of Iowa, in November, 1861, and it was ready to 
again take the field under the most favorable conditions.  In the meantime, Colonel Cyrus 
Bussey had been promoted to Brigadier General, and Lieutenant Colonel H. C. Caldwell 
succeeded him as Colonel of the regiment.  On May 23, 1864, President Lincoln appointed 
Colonel Caldwell judge of the United States district court for the State of Arkansas, and the 
Colonel resigned to accept the appointment.  Lieutenant Colonel John W. Noble was then 
promoted to Colonel and Major George Duffield to Lieutenant Colonel; Captain Jones and 
McCrary were promoted to Majors.  The regiment moved from St. Louis to Memphis, 
where it arrived in the latter part of April and where it performed patrol and picket duty—
when not absent on expeditions—until late in December.  During the months of June, July 
and August the regiment was engaged in the expeditions to Guntown, Tupelo, and Oxford, 
Miss.  In the months of September, October and November, the available portion of the 
regiment took part in the campaign in Missouri, against the army of the rebel General 
Price.
	The expedition to Guntown, under the command of General Sturgis, was a disastrous 
blunder and failure, owing entirely to the incompetency of the General in command.  In his 
official report of the operations of the Third Iowa Cavalry on this expedition, Colonel 
Noble gives a most complete and accurate description of every movement of the regiment, 
and shows the importance of its service—in connection with the other regiments of the 
cavalry brigade to which it was attached—in acting as rear guard during the retreat and 
saving the army from being utterly ovrwhelmed and captured by the enemy.  After 
describing in detail the movements of the regiment and its encounters with the enemy 
during the advance and up to the time the battle at Brice's Cross Roads began, Colonel 
Noble this describes the situation at the most critical period of that battle:
			At this juncture, my whole command was relieved by regiments of 
infantry, and was retiring when the infantry became engaged.  We formed a new line 
immediately in their rear, rather than in appearance to leave them in an emergency.  After 
the order was received for us to retire to our horses, this regiment did so in the best order, 
mounting by companies and forming a column of squadrons.  The contest on the field and 
in line lasted but a short time after this, and the enemy was hotly pressing his victory.  The 
infantry was filing past us in great numbers.  The train was turned to the rear, and it 
became necessary for us to take a second position, mounted, to protect the retreating 
column.  A column of squadrons was again formed, facing the enemy, who failed to attack 
with small arms, but finally opened upon this regiment a heavy canonade of round shot and 
shell.  These fell around my men, wounding a number, but causing not the least disorder.  
By order we moved further to the rear something near half a mile, and again formed in 
squadrons faced to the enemy, who kept at a distance and used his artillery only.  Our own 
artillery was being retired and did not protect us.  After holding our position for some time, 
we were ordered to retire , which we did in the best order, not an officer or soldier being 
our of his place…..The greatest difficulty was found in recrossing the bayou or swamp in 
our rear, and in it were caught most of the artillery and train of the army.  Arriving at 
Stubb's plantation, on our camping ground of the night previous, we rested from about 11 
P. M. to 2 A. M., when we again moved toward Ripley, holding the rear,  After daylight, 
two squardrons were sent by me a mile to the rear, and a line formed by battalion to 
support them, when the few infantry who had not already passed us were brought up and 
sent forward.  But after this the enemy began to assail us with great determination, and it 
was only by the greatest energy and courage that my squadrons, Companies L, M and A, 
united under Captain Brown, and Company B, under Captain DeHuff, were able to hold 
the bridge leading to Ripley.  They did so, however, until relieved by the Fourth Iowa 
Cavalry, who now took the rear…..My regiment now accompanied General Grierson to 
Ripley by his own personal orders.
	Arriving at Ripley…..I was notified that the enemy was about to attack on the left, 
and to prepare for him.  I formed a column of squadrons, faced to the rear immediately, 
and at the same time was ordered to support the Fourth Iowa Cavalry then in action….My 
advance in line was under severe fire, and over fields broken by high fences and deep 
ditches…The enemy was checked, and the position held until, his subject obtained, 
General Grierson ordered me to retire.   To retire at this point was a matter of no little 
difficulty, for the enemy, having no resistance elsewhere, where flanking as well as 
pressing from the rear.  Their fire was redoubled as we moved again upon the road.  In this 
stand we lost Lieutenant Miller, of Company D, who fell wounded, bravely fighting and 
facing the foe; also Corporal Gilchrist, Company C., was killed and others wounded…..I 
have the satisfaction of knowing that the enemy did not escape without punishment; his 
flad was seen to fall three times under our fire, and many of his men were killed and 
wounded.  To hold the rear of a rapidly retreating column against a superior and assailing 
enemy now became the task of my regiment, and resulted in considerable loss to us.  
Companies I and K were thrown to the rear, under the command of Major Jones.  A 
column of the enemy, advancing through the surrounding thickets, came upon them while 
they were gallantly holding another regiment at bay, and charging them suddenly, after 
much resistance, by overpowering numbers captured most of those who are reported in the 
accompanying tables… Platoon after platoon was thrown out right and left along our road, 
and, facing to the rear, presented front to the rebels…..This method of defense was 
continued throughout the morning and afternoon.  A cavalry force of our men and an 
infantry command now gave my regiment temporary relief.  But the enemy still pressing, 
the cavalry failed to hold their place and a portion of the infantry was thrown into 
confusion and captured…..I immediately formed another battalion line, supporting it with 
squadrons place at advantageous points, the infantry left passed through my line, and I was 
once more contending with the advance of the enemy.  The duty was severe, and, in view 
of what had already been performed, somewhat unexpected; but, as it had been assigned to 
help others, it was presevered in without complaint as long as strength was left to resist.  I 
was finally relieved by the Fourth Iowa Cavalry, and they by the Second New Jersey.  
After this my command was not again under fire.  The rest of the day the column advanced 
without food or rest, except a short halt at evening, when, the enemy approaching, the 
column was again put in motions, and the march continued through the night and next 
morning to LaFayette.
	Colonel Noble concludes his report by a description of the remainder of the march to 
Memphis.  This was the nost unfortunate expedition in which the regiment participated 
during its long term of service.  That it maintained its well won reputation as a fighting 
organization and demonstrated most completely the efficiency of the cavalry arm of the 
service, both upon the advance and retreat of the army, is shown by thr foregoing extracts 
from Colonel Noble's report, which is also verified by other official reports of cavalry and 
infantry commanders upon that expedition.  The compiler has given much more space to 
this report than he will be able to devote to those which follow, for the reason, drawn from 
his own experience and that of others, that it is the severest test of the bravery and fortitude 
of soldiers and their commanders to obey orders and persist in fighting under the 
demoralizing conditions resulting from the blunders and incapacity of a General unfit to 
command an army.  It is under such conditions that men and officers exhibit the nearest 
approach to total self abnegation of which human nature is capable, save only that 
matchless spirit of self sacrifice shown by the Union soldiers who suffered in the prison 
pens of the South.  At the close of his report, Colonel Noble says:
	I refer to the accompanying tables for a more definite statement of my losses in this 
most unfortunate expedition, in which my command labored so hard and fought so well.  
My officers and men behaved universally so well that I cannot make much distinction 
among them.  But, for their aid in getting a new line to face the enemy at one particular 
emergency, I deem Captain Curkendall, of Company D, and Lieutenant McKee, of 
Company B, worthy of particular notice.  Major Jones was constantly at his post, and did 
all a good and brave officer could.  If occasion offers, I hope to bring the merits of others 
of the brave men more prominently forward than I can do now.
	The aggregate number of the regiment engaged upon this expedition was five 
hundred forty-five.  Its aggregate loss was seventy.  The report of Colonel E. F. Winslow 
of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry, who commanded the brigade, shown an aggregate loss in his 
command of one hundred twenty-six.  He also reports the loss of horses on the expedition, 
as follows: Forty killed, one hundred eighteen wounded, and two hundred twenty-eight 
abandoned, of which number the Third Iowa Cavalry lost nineteen killed, forty-one 
wounded and one hundred abandoned.  The figures shoe conclusively the hard and 
persistent fighting done by the cavalry as the rear guard of that army.
	The regiment arrived at Memphis on June 14th, and remained in camp until the 24th, 
when all the officers and men able for duty started upon another expedition, this time under 
the command of that able and energetic officer, Major General A. J. Smith, who knew how 
to handle men in battle and care for them on the march.  The regiment was engaged in 
many skirmishes on this expedition, participated in the battle of Tupelo, and performed its 
full share of duty with the other cavalry regiments associated with it.  The enemy was 
defeated in every encounter and the disasters of the previous campaign were fully 
retrieved.  In his official report Colonel Noble gives a detailed account of the operations of 
his regiment, and especially commends the valor displayed by his officers and men in an 
encounter which occurred on the 13th of July, at Oldtown Creek, in which the enemy was 
driven from a very strong position.  Special mention is made of the meritorious conduct on 
this occasion—and at all times during the expedition—of Major Duffield, Captain Crail 
and Captain Brown, commanders of battalions, and Captains McCrary and Johnson.  The 
regiment returned to Memphis on July 13th, having marched nearly four hundred miles 
while on the expedition, during which the casualties were as follows:  Enlisted men killed 
one; wounded seventeen; missing one.  Horses, killed, eighteen; wounded eighteen; worn 
out and abandoned eleven.
	On the 25th of July, 1864, all the cavalry at Memphis—consisting of fourteen 
regiments—was organized as a cavalry army corps, composed of two divisions, the first 
under command of General Hatch, (former Colonel of the Second Iowa,) and the second 
under command of Colonel Winslow, of the Fourth Iowa, the whole under command of 
General Grierson.  The Second Brigade of the Second Division was composed of the Third 
and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouri, with Colonel Noble as Brigade Commander, and 
Major B. S. Jones in command of the Third Iowa.  On the 5th of August this cavalry force 
left Memphis and, in co-operation with General A. J. Smith's Division of Infantry, 
proceeded upon an expedition to Oxford, Miss.  The Third Iowa performed its share of 
duty upon this expedition, but did not suffer any serious casualties.  It returned with the 
other troops to Memphis, on August 30th, just in time to start upon one of the most 
important campaigns in the history of its service—that against the rebel army commanded 
by General Price, which had again invaded the State if Missouri.
	The campaign against Price was one of the most brilliant and effective of the closing 
campaigns of the western armies, and during its entire progress the Third Iowa Cavalry 
performed most arduous and conspicuous service.  Major B. S. Jones, who commanded the 
regiment during this period of its service, gives a carefully detailed account of all it s 
movements in his official report.  His report is dated at Benton Barracks, Mo., November 
28, 1864.  Major Jones assumed command, and left Memphis with his regiment on the 
morning of September 2, 1864.  At that time the available mounted force of the regiment 
was 482 men and 15 line officers, and formed a part of the brigade commanded by Colonel 
Winslow of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry.  The command marched to Cape Giradeau, Mo., 
arriving there October 5th, and embarking on transports proceeded to St. Louis, where it 
arrived on October 10th.  The next day it started on the march up the Missouri Valley, 
marching rapidly and  almost constantly until October 22d, on which date it joined the 
forces under Major General Pleasanton, then engaged in conflict with the enemy near 
Independence, Mo., participated in that battle, and in the battles of the big Blue and Osage 
Rivers, which quickly followed, the first being fought on the 23d and the second on the 
25th of October.  In all three of these battles the Third Iowa Cavalry distinguished itself, 
boldly charging the enemy and capturing many prisoners.  The following extracts are made 
from the concluding portion of the official report of Major Jones, referring to the conduct 
of his regiment in the battle on the Osage River and the closing scenes of the campaign:
		The enemy, having been routed from his position on the river, was followed 
up at a gallop for several miles, by Winslow's brigade, in the following order, Tenth, 
Missouri, fourth Iowa, Third Iowa, fourth Missouri and Seventh Indiana Cavalry, when he 
attempted to make a stand, formed on the open prairies, in two lines of battle, with the 
brigade in column of regiments, in their order of march, and constituting the left center of 
our whole line.  We charge the enemy, breaking his right and center, killing, wounding and 
capturing many of his men.  Among the captured were Generals Marmaduke and Cabell, 
the former by Private James Dunlavy, of Company D, and the latter by Sergeant C. M. 
Young, of Company L, both of the Third Iowa Cavalry.  Companies C, D and E captured 
three pieces of the enemy's artillery.  The whole of my command did nobly on that field, as 
also on others, and the highest commendations are due to every man and officer.  The 
remainder of this day was one continued charge upon the enemy, and his complete rout.  
We rested on the open prairie over night, near Fort Scott.  On the 26th of October we rested, 
with our brigade, at Fort Scott.  Early on the 27th, again joined in the pursuit of the enemy, 
and continued through Arkansas and the Indian Territory to a point on the Arkansas River, 
forty miles above Fort Smith, without again seeing the enemy.  From there we returned to 
this place, having marched, since September 2d, 1,650 miles, participated in three general 
engagements, marching through a country destitute of forage, it having been devastated by 
the enemy, and many times without food for my men, having had only three-fifths rations 
from the 28th ult. To the 7th inst., and not any bread from the 7th to the 12th inst. In 
consequence of the destitution of the Indian Territory through which we marched, and the 
great distance from the base of supplies.  We suffered a total loss of six men killed, and 
two officers and forty-one men wounded, several of whom have since died.  I append a list 
of casualties.
	During the absence of Major Jones and his command, that portion of the regiment 
which had been left at Memphis, consisting of eleven commissioned officers and three 
hundred and nine enlisted men, under the command of Colonel Noble, took part in an 
expedition under General Grierson, passing over much of the ground over which the 
regiment had previously marched and fought, but not meeting any considerable force of the 
enemy, the main object of the expedition being the destruction of the railroad and rolling 
stock and military stores and other property belonging to the rebel army.  This was 
accomplished in a very effectual manner, and the scattered forces of the enemy, which 
endeavored to rally and oppose the advance of General Grierson's command, were easily 
overcome and dispersed.  In his official report Colonel Noble gives an account of the vast 
amount of property destroyed.  The casualties were: Private Nelson Pringle, Company K, 
wounded and captured January 1, 1865; Private James Barr, Company B, mortally 
wounded January 4, 1865, and one man missing name not reported.  On the 5th of January, 
1865, Colonel Noble entered Vicksburg with his command and embarked on Steamer "E. 
H. Fairchild."  He concludes his report with the statement that his command arrived at 
Memphis on January 11, 1865, where he received orders to proceed to Louisville, Ky., the 
portion of the regiment under command of Major Jones having already departed for that 
place.  At Louisville the regiment was once more united and received a supply of Spencer 
carbines, a remount of fresh horses and the other equipments necessary to put it again in 
perfect marching and fighting condition.
	While these two portions of the regiment were engaged upon the expeditions as 
heretofore described, the men and officers who had not re-enlisted and whose term of 
service had expired were mustered out of the service and returned to their home in Iowa.  
The names of these soldiers will be found in the subjoined roster, with the dates of their 
honorable discharge by reason of expiration of term of service. They had faithfully served 
the full term of three years, many of them were not in physical condition to be again 
mustered into the service, and all of them had earned the right to retire with honor and 
without being subjected to criticism by comparison with their comrades who preferred to 
serve until the end of the war.  Therefore, while those who remained have the official right 
to the title of Veterans, and are so designated in the roster, the lack of that title should not 
be considered as a disparagement to those who did not re-enlist when their original term of 
three years had expired.
	The reunited Veterans, under command of Colonel John W. Noble, remained in 
camp at Louisville while preparations were being made for the next and last great 
campaign in which they were to engage.  The regiment was assigned to the first Brigade of 
the Fourth Division of the Cavalry Corps, commanded by Brevet Major General James H. 
Wilson.  The division was under the command of Brevet Major General Emory Upton, and 
the brigade—consisting of the Third and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouir Cavalry—was 
under the command of Brevet Brigadier General Edward F. Wilslow.  The three regiments 
numbered about two thousand four hundred men and officers,  It was especially fitting that 
these regiments, which had so long been associated together, should be retained in the 
brigade and commanded by an officer under who they had fought so often and in whom 
they had implicit confidence.  It was evident that his last struggle was to be a desperate 
one.  The cavalry forces of the enemy were under the command of Lieutenant General N. 
B. Forrest, of whose ability and courage no troops on the Union side had better knowledge 
than those composing Winslow's Brigade, which had so often fought the rebel forces under 
command of that intrepid Southern leader.
	The regiment with its brigade marched from Louisville to Chickasaw Landing on the 
Tennessee River, where the first active operations of the campaign commenced on March 
21, 1865, and ended at Macon, Ga., with the close of the war.  There was no engagement 
during this great campaign, in which Winslow's Brigade participated, in which the Third 
Iowa Cavalry was not conspicuous.  The brigade commander recognized the meritorious 
conduct of Colonel Noble and his gallant regiment and highly commended then, as will be 
seen by the following extracts taken from his official report:
		HEADQUARTERS FIRST BRIGADE, FOURTH DIVISION, C. C. D. M.,
								MACON, GA., April 21, 1865.
MAJOR:  I have the honor to submit the following report of operations of my 
command since leaving Chickasaw Landing, Tennessee River, March 21st last.  The 
distance marched, direct, has been four hundred eighty-eight miles, while the scouting, 
expeditionary, flanking, and foraging marches swell the number of miles to an average of 
six hundred to each regiment.  Though much of this has been over a mountainous and 
partially sterile region, we have found sufficient corn, and if it were not the long, hard 
marches, often extending into the night, our animals would now be in exceedingly good 
condition.  Those worn out have been abandoned or turned over to the negroes, and their 
places supplied with captured horses and mules.  The general conduct of officers and men 
has been excellent….We had slight skirmishing before entering Montevallo, March 30th, 
one man of the fourth Iowa Cavalry being slightly wounded.  March 31st, my brigade 
moved in rear of the division, when, a few miles south of Montevallo, it passed to the front, 
and the Tenth Missouri Cavalry, being dismounted, the enemy, an Alabama brigade, was at 
once pushed out of position.  Two men of the Tenth Missouri were wounded.  While this 
regiment mounted, the Third Iowa Cavalry, Colonel J. W. Noble commanding, took the 
advance and one company charged the enemy on the road, at a time when its column was 
in retreat.  A portion of the enemy being separated from their main force, Captain Johnson, 
with two companies, was sent to the right, and, charging, captured quite a number.  Several 
of the enemy were killed and wounded.  This officer acted with vigor and gallantry.  The 
enemy were driven in great confusion to Randolph, leaving many animals and a number of 
men along the road and seventy-five prisoners in our hands.  Colonel Noble led his 
regiment, which behaved admirable, and his Adjutant lost his horse in the first charge.
	Moved April 1st in rear of the division and, when at Mapleville Station, heard 
firing in front; receiving soon afterwards orders to push forward rapidly, two regiments, 
Third Iowa Cavalry leading, were hastened to the battle-ground of Ebenezer Church, 
arriving just as the engagement was being decided.  Captain Arnim, Company I, was 
thrown out on the left of the road and directed to charge a line of the enemy formed on the 
bank of the creek four hundred yards from the head of my column.  This company, having 
to throw down a fence under a severe fire, had one officer, Lieutenant J. J. Veatch, and 
several men, wounded, losing also about fifteen horses.  Captain Arnim and his company 
behaved in a gallant manner, as did also Captain Alonzo Clark, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, A. A. 
Q. M., who voluntarily aided in conducting this movement.  The column moving forward, 
the enemy quickly retired, and the Third Iowa Cavalry was sent in pursuit, following the 
enemy to Plantersville, five miles.  Captain John D. Brown, Company L, charged his men 
over a deep stream, capturing more of the enemy (a color company) than his command 
numbered.  This officer had been sent with his company to Mapleville early in the day, 
and, meeting a body of the enemy, charged it, capturing several and scattering the others.  
Sergeant John Wall, guldon bearer of Company K, after being wounded in the hand, 
retained the saddle, carried his colors and, in a subsequent engagement, captured a rebel 
officer.
We arrived near Selma, April 2s at 2 P. M., dismounting in battalion lines until 5 
o'clock.  At that hour, in obedience to orders from the Brevet Major General commanding 
the division, I dismounted my command and, leaving every eighth man to hold horses, 
formed the Third Iowa on the right and the Tenth Missouri on the left of the Plantersville 
road, in line, about half a mile from the rebel works and fronting them.  Seven companies, 
Fourth Iowa, were preparing to move to the left of the Ten Missouri, when the Second 
Division on my right attacked in force, and soon gained possession of the fortification in its 
front.  Observing this attack the dismounted regiments were immediately advanced, and 
when the Second Division obtained possession of the outer works, the Fourth Cavalry, 
which had not yet left their horses, came forward at a gallop in column of fours, and at 
once pushed into the city, companies going in various directions to complete the 
discomfiture of the enemy.  About this time the Third Iowa and Tenth Missouri were 
directed to remount, but the road being blocked by subsequent movements this was not 
fully accomplished until a later hour……The mounted companies secured four guns, three 
stands of colors and about one thousand prisoners; several hundred of the enemy were 
killed and wounded and many were drowned in attempting to escape…..April 3d, by 
direction of Brevert Major General Wilson, I assumed command of the city, while my 
brigade, Colonel Noble commanding, made a march to the rear, through Summerfield to 
Johnson's Ferry, returning on the 6th inst.  With the army this brigade moved from Selma, 
April 10th, arriving at Montgomery on the 12th, near which city we remained until the 14th.
Major Curkendall, with six companies of the Third Iowa Cavalry, was here detailed 
 as provost guard, and did not rejoin the command until after  the capture of Columbus 
….This brigade reached the point of attack before Columbus about 7:30 P. M., and at 8 
o'clock was disposed in the following order:  Six companies of Third Iowa Cavalry, 
Colonel Noble commanding, dismounted in line at right angles to the Somerville road, with 
the left resting thereon, two hundred and fifty yards from the main line on our left; the 
latter formed behind fortifications running parallel with the Somerville road ; the Tenth 
Missouri Cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel F. W. Benteen commanding, on the Somerville road, 
four hundred yards in rear of the Third Iowa, in column of fours mounted, and the Fourth 
Iowa , Lieutenant Colonel John H. Peters commanding in the same order, on a by-road 
three hundred yards from the point of its intersection with the Somerville road, being thus 
to the right and rear of the Third Iowa, two hundred yards.
	The moment we were ready to attack, the enemy opened fire in front with small 
arms, and on the left with shell, canister and musketry, when the Third Iowa was directed 
to charge, and in five minutes we were in possession of the rifle pits in our front.  
Supposing the captured works to be a portion of the enemy's main line unhurt, but the 
officer, Captain R. B. McGlasson, finding his position untenable, released his prisoners and 
rejoined his regiment with loss of one man killed.  When this regiment commenced its 
forward movement as the enemy developed his main line on, our left, the Third Iowa was 
immediately directed to charge this other position, and this gallant regiment pressed 
forward vigorously, Captains McKee and Wilson with about fifty men penetrating the line, 
capturing some prisoners and holding the  position….The Fourth Iowa which was now 
immediately in front of the enemy's lines, was dismounted, except four companies, and, in 
charge of Captain Abraham, Company D, were pushed into the enemy's works near where 
the detachment of the Third Iowa has secured a lodgment.  In obedience to instructions, 
when inside the works Captain Abraham moved directly toward the bridge, not stopping to 
secure the prisoners, who, after being made to throw away their arms, were left where 
found.  Near the end of this line of rifle pits, was a work with six 12-pound Howitzers, 
which Captain Abraham at once assaulted, capturing the garrison and armament together 
with four 10-pound Parrott guns, gunners and caissons, which were in position and firing 
near this fort.  Without halting, a portion of his command rushed over the bridge (a covered 
one), capturing two 12-pound Howitzers, caissons, etc., on the east end.  These two guns 
were loaded with canister, but the gunners could not fire without killing the rebels flying 
over the bridge with our men.  The capture of this bridge was in itself a great victory, as it 
had been fully prepared for sudden and complete destruction.  The enemy were unable to 
fore this structure, which, being saved, enabled our forces to occupy Columbus and march 
immediately upon Macon……There have been very many instances of individual heroism, 
while almost every one did all he could.  If in this report some persons seem to have done 
more than well, it must not be inferred that others would not have done equally well of 
they had been fortunate in securing opportunities.	
	During the campaign this brigade has taken in action three thousand one hundred 
prisoners, including two hundred commissioned officers, eleven stands of colors, thirty-
three guns, twenty-five caissons, three thousand five hundred stand of arms, and a large 
number of horses, wagons and mules….As a testimony of my respect and appreciation of 
their ability and services, and because of gallantry in presence of the enemy, I respectfully 
recommend as follows:  That the rank of Major by Brevet be conferred upon the following 
named officers:…John D. Brown, Captain Company L, Third Iowa Cavalry.  This officer 
was wounded severely in the battle of Big Blue, Mo., October 23, 1864; he has twice, on 
the present expedition, attacked, with his company, a force of the enemy greater than his 
own, and each time completely routed him, once capturing more than his own command 
numbered.—George W. Johnson, Captain Company M, Third Iowa Cavalry.  This officer, 
once with two and again with one company, charged a superior force of the enemy with 
great gallantry courage, good conduct and gallantry have been frequently 
observed…Samuel J. McKee, Captain Company B, Third Iowa Cavalry.  This officer has 
several times led his company gallantly, and was the first officer to enter the lines of the 
enemy at Columbus, himself and men having to work their way through an abatis in 
presence of the enemy, securely posted behind intrenchments, and only a few yards distant.  
With two companies he met and repulsed the enemy at Pike's Ferry, Cahawba River, 
killing and wounding some and capturing thirty animals.
							Your obedient servant,
										E. F. WINSLOW,
							Brevet Brigadier General, Commanding.
	The regiment marched with its brigade and division from Columbus in Macon, 
arriving at the latter place just after the rebel forces which had occupied it had surrendered 
unconditionally.  The war was now practically ended, but the services of the union troops 
could not at once be dispensed with.  The rebel soldiers, having been paroled, were rapidly 
returning to their homes.  The country was in a state of destitution, the civil authorities 
incapable of exercising proper control, and it was necessary, for the preservation of order 
and the protection of life and property, that the military power should be exercised for a 
considerable length of time.  Early in May the regiment with its brigade and division 
proceeded to Atlanta, where headquarters were established, but detachments were sent into 
the surrounding country.  The duty was irksome and the men were anxious to return to 
their homes, but it was late in the summer before their services could be saftely dispensed 
with.  On the 2d of August orders were received directing the assembling of the Third and 
Fourth Regiments of Iowa Cavalry at Atlanta for the purpose of being mustered out of the 
service.  On the 9th day of August, 1865, the Third Iowa Veteran Cavalry was formally 
mustered out of the service of the United States, At Atlanta, Ga.  It was soon after provided 
with transportation to Davenport, Iowa, and, upon reaching that place, the regiment was 
disbanded and the men departed for their homes.
	In the long lost of Iowa regiments, the outlines of whose history the compiler of this 
sketch has attempted to describe not one has been found to surpass the glorious record of 
patriotic service rendered by the Third Cavalry.  Its full and complete history would 
occupy a volume larger than that which contains this brief and imperfect sketch.  Not many 
of those who marched, fought and suffered in its ranks remain upon earth, but to those who 
may live to persue what is here written will come the assurance that the State, which sent 
them forth in the strength of their young manhood, to fight the battles of their country, has 
made such provision as was possible to perpetuate the memory of each brave and faithful 
soldier of the old regiment. These men of the Third Iowa Cavalry have left the impress of 
their lives upon the history of their State and Nations, not only as brave soldiers in time of 
war but as good citizens in every honorable avocation of life.  Some of their n umber have 
been highly honored since the close of the war, and have achieved fame and distinction in 
the high places to which they have been assigned, but, to each one who faithfully served 
his country in her hour of greatest need, posterity owes a debt of gratitude which can never 
be fully repaid.

	SUMMARY OF CASUALTIES.

Total Enrollment					     2,165
Killed							          66
Wounded						        166
Died of wounds					     	31
Died of disease					        230
Discharged for wounds, disease and other causes	350
Buried in National Cemeteries	    			175
Captured							145
Transferred							  22

	Mustered into the service of the United States at Keokuk, Iowa, Sept. 14, 1861, by 
Captain Charles C. Smith and Lieutenant Ira K. Knox, of the United States Army.
	Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.

George W. Johnson. (Veteran.)  Age 27.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  
Promoted Second Battalion Sergeant Major from company D. Sept. 15, 1861.  Wounded 
slightly March 7, 1862, Pea Ridge, Ark.  Promoted First Lieutenant of Company M, March 
15, 1862.

Willima Wishard.  Age 45.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Kentucky,  Promoted first 
Battalion Commissary Sergeant from Company Quartermaster Sergeant Sept. 20, 1861.  
Discharged for disability Aug.----, 1862, Helena, Ark.

James M. King.  Age 36.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Tennessee.  Promoted First 
Battalion Saddler Sergeant from Saddler of Company A, Sept. 20, 1861.  Mustered out 
Nov. 30, 1862.

George L. McCallum.  (Veteran.)  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.  
Promoted Chief Trumpeter from Bugler of Company E, Sept. 1, 1863.  Re-enlisted and re-
mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "E"

Aikin, John B.  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861, 
as Second Corporal.  Mustered Sept 4, 1861.  Promoted First Corporal Jan. 20, 1863.  
Mustered out Sept. 13, 1864, Davenport, Iowa, expiration of term of service.

COMPANY "A"

Bromley, Jasper.  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 1861.  
Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Promoted Sixth Corporal Sept. 20, 1861; Fifth Corporal Jan. 17, 
1862; Fourth Corporal March 7, 1862' sixth Sergeant Feb. 25, 1863; Fifth Sergeant May 1, 
1863.  Wounded severely May 1, 1863, La Grange, Ark. Mustered out Sept. 13, 1864, 
expiration of term of service.

Brown, James M.  Age 34.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 1861, 
as Fifth Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 7. 1861.  Promoted Company Quartermaster Sergeant 
Sept. 29, 1861; Second Lieutenant April 30, 1862; First Lieutenant Sept. 1, 1862.  
Resigned April 4, 1863.

COMPANY "E"

Battin, Milton.  Age 24.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861, as 
Seventh Corporal.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Fifth Corporal April 3, 1862; Fourth 
Corporal Jan. 20, 1863; Third corporal July 31, 1863; Second Corporal. Mustered out Sept. 
18, 1864, expiration of term of service.

Battin, Newton.  (Veteran.)  Age 23.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 
17, 1861, as Fourth Sergeant. Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Third Sergeant Jan. 1, 
1863.  Taken prisoner and paroled.  Promoted Second Sergeant Jan. 1, 184.  Re-enlisted 
and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted Second Lieutenant Aug. 23, 1864.  Mustered out 
Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Company "A"

Chambers, Amos.  (Veteran.)  Age 34,  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted 
Aug. 31, 1861, as Second Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Wounded slightly March 7, 
1862, Pea Ridge, Ark.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Jan. J. 1864.  Promoted Company 
Commissary Sergeant March 1, 1865.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Cunningham, Cyrus.  Age 22.  Residence Gloomfield, nativity Tennessee.  Enlisted Aug. 
31, 1861, as First Corporal.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Wounded March 7, 1862, Pea Ridge, 
Ark.  Promoted Third Sergeant June 30, 1862; First Sergeant July 31, 1862.  Mustered out 
Sept. 19, 1864, Keokuk, Iowa, expiration of term of service.

COMPANY "D"

Cook, Norman W.  Age 35.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity New York.  Appointed 
Captain Aug. 24, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 9, 1861.  Resigned June 14, 1863.

Curkendall, George.  Age 32.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Virginia.  Appointed first 
Lieutenant Aug. 24, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 9, 1861.  Promoted Captain June 15, 1873; 
Major Jan. 5, 1865.  Mustered out Aug 9, 1865, Atlanta. Ga.

Cyphers, Lewis G.  (Veteran.)  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted 
Aug. 24, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 9, 1861.  Taken prisoner Dec. 3, 1862, Oakland, Miss.  
Paroled.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted Eighth Corporal April 9, 
1864; Seventh Corporal May 16, 1864.  Reduced to ranks Aug. 1, 1864.  Promoted Eighth 
Corporal Sept. 1, 1864; Seventh Corporal Nov. 11, 1864; Fifth Corporal June 18, 1865; 
Fourth Corporal July 15. 1865.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "E"

Cassat, Henry.  Age 44.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861.  
Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Discharged for disability Dec. 24, 1862, Houston, Mo.

Cheetham, George W.  Age 23.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Pennsylvania.  Enlisted 
Aug. 31, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Died of disease Oct. 4, 1863, Benton, Ark.  
Buried in National Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark.  Section 3, grave 40.  See Company A.

Clark, Marshal J.  (Veteran.)  Age 26.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Tennessee.  Enlisted 
Aug. 17, 1861, as Farrier.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered 
Feb.11864.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga,

Coberley, Felix.  (Veteran.)  Age 36.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 
17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Mustered 
out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Corick, Andrew J.  Age 22.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Missouri.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Discharged for disability Feb. 1, 1862, Mexico, Mo.  Re-
entered service Feb. 17, 1864.  Mustered Feb. 23, 1864.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, 
Atlanta, Ga.

Crumrine, Enos G.  (Veteran.)  Age 22.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.  Enlisted 
Oct. 4, 1861.  Mustered Oct. 4, 1861. Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Mustered 
out Aug. 9, 1864, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "A"

Dodd, William.  (Veteran.)  Age 27.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted 
Aug. 31, 1861, as Third Corporal.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Promoted Fourth Sergeant 
June 30, 1862; Third Sergeant July 31, 1862; Second Sergeant; Company Quartermaster 
Sergeant Feb. 25, 1863.  Mustered out Sept. 13, 1864, expiration of term of service.

COMPANY "D"

Dunn, Charles E.  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 24, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 9, 1861.  Transferred to Company G, Second Infantry, Nov. 30, 
1861.  (Second enlistment.)

COMPANY "E"

Deypree, Joseph W. T.  (Veteran.)  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  
Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Company Commissary 
Sergeant Jan. 28, 1863.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Taken prisoner June 
11, 1864, Ripley, Miss.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Duffield, Edmund.  (Veteran.)  Age 22.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted 
Aug. 17, 1861, as Company Quartermaster Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted 
Second Lieutenant Sept. 5, 1862.  Promoted first Lieutenant Aug. 23, 1864.  Discharged 
May 15, 1865.

COMPANY "I"

Davis, John W.  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Tennessee.  Enlisted Sept. 8, 
1862.  Mustered Sept. 21, 1862.  Wounded severely May 1, 1863, La Grange, Ark.  Taken 
prisoner June 11, 1864, Ripley, Miss.  Mustered out June 24, 1865, Davenport, Iowa, 
expiration of term of service.

COMPANY "M"

Day, Josephus.  (Veteran.)  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted 
Aug. 15, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 12, 1861.  Taken prisoner Sept. 10, 1862, Little Rock, Ark.  
Re-enlisted and re-mustered Jan. 1, 1864.  Wounded severely Oct. 25m 1864, Mine Creek, 
Kas.  Discharged for wounds March 27, 1865, Paoli, Kas.

COMPANY "E"

Fountain, Joseph D.  (Veteran.)  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.  Enlisted 
Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Sixth Sergeant Jan. 1, 1864.  Re-
enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted fifth Sergeant Dec. 7, 1864; Fourth 
Sergeant March 31, 1865.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "E"

Gandy, Samuel E.  (Veteran.)  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Virginia.  Enlisted 
April 7, 1863.  Mustered April 7, 1863.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  
Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865.

Gilpin, Thomas C.  (Veteran.)  Age 28.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted 
Aug. 17, 1861, as First Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 4. 1961.  Promoted Second Lieutenant 
April 3, 1862; First Lieutenant Sept. 5, 1862; Captain Aug. 23, 1864.  Mustered out Aug. 
9. 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Gregory Cammach.  Age 22 Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Wounded July 28, 1862, Moore's Mill, Mo.  Discharged 
for wounds Jan. 25, 1863, Houston, Mo.

COMPANY "A"

Hickok, James A.  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 1861.  
Mustered Sept. 7. 1861.  Taken prisoner May 1, 1863, La Grange, Ark.  Exchanged and 
returned to Company Nov. 12, 1863.  Mustered out Sept. 13, 1864, expiration of term of 
service.
  
COMPANY "D"

Hatch, Norman.  Age 44.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity New York.  Enlisted Nov. 19, 
1861.  Mustered Nov, 19, 1861.  Pomoted Teamster.  Discharged for disability April 27, 
1864.

COMPANY "E"

Hazlewood, George C.  Age 25.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Virginia.  Enlisted Aug. 
17, 1861, as Third Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Second Sergeant.  Taken 
prisoner and paroled.  Mustered out Sept. 19, 1864, expiration of term of service.

Hendrixon, Richard.  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1851.  Died April 30, 1863, Ironton, Mo.  Buried in National 
Cemetery, Ironton, Mo.

Hurless, Cephas M.  Age 40.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 
1861, as Eighth Corporal.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Sixth Corporal; Fifth 
Corporal, Jan. 20, 1863; Fourth Corporal July 31, 1863; Second Corporal. Mustered out 
Sept. 12, 1864, Davenport, Iowa, expiration of term of service.

COMPANY "E"

Johnson, John.  Age 26.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Virginia.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861, 
as First Corporal.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Discharged for disability Jan. 20, 1863, 
Warrenton, Mo.

Johnson, Theodore D.  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 
1861, as Second Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Quartermaster Oct. 3, 1862.  
Mustered out Aug. 9. 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Jones, James M.  (Veteran.)  Age 20.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Missouri.  Enlisted 
Aug. 30, 1862.  Mustered Aug. 30, 1862.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  
Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "M"

Johnson, George W.  (Veteran.)  Age 27.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  
Promoted First Lieutenant from Second Battalion Sergeant Major March 15, 1862.  
Promoted Captain May 1, 1864.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.  See Field and 
Staff; see also Company D.

COMPANY "E"

McCallum, George l.  (Veteran.)  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.   Enlisted 
Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted bugler Nov. 1, 1861; Chief Trumpeter 
Sept. 1, 1863.  See Field and Staff.

McCaulley, Joseph.  (Veteran.)  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted 
Aug. 28, 1862.  Mustered Aug. 28, 1862.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  
Promoted Eighth Corporal Jan. 1, 1865; Seventh Corporal March 15, 185; Sixth Corporal 
May 1, 1865; Fifth Corporal July 1, 1865.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

McGee, Oliver W.  Age 22.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Missouri.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Company Commissary Sergeant.  Died Jan. 27, 
1863, Springfield, Mo.  Buried in National Cemetery, Springfield, Mo.  Section 9, grave 
34.

COMPANY "A"

Macy, John.  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 1861.  
Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Promoted Seventh Corporal Feb. 25, 1863.  Killed in action May 
1, 1863, La Grange, Ark.

COMPANY "D"

Morgan, John S.  (Veteran.)  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted 
Sept. 26, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 26, 1861.  Promoted Seventh Corporal Jan. 1, 1862; 
Second Corporal March 1, 1862; First Corporal July 17, 1862; Sixth Sergeant Sept. 1, 
1862; Fifth Sergeant Nov. 1, 1862; Fourth Sergeant March 28, 1863; Second Sergeant Jan. 
1 1864.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted First Sergeant April 9, 1864; 
Second Lieutenant Jan. 6, 1865; First Lieutenant May 24, 1865.  Mustered out Aug. 8. 
1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "E"

March, William T.  (Veteran.)  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.  Enlisted 
May 11, 1863.  Mustered June 3, 1863.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  
Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Morris, Harvey M.  (Veteran.)  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.  Enlisted 
Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  
Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga,

COMPANY "D"
Oliver, Bryant O.  (Veteran.)  Age 20.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Kentucky.  Enlisted 
Aug. 24, 1861, as Company Quartermaster Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 9, 1861.  Promoted 
First Sergeant Jan. 1, 1862; Second Lieutenant June 15, 1863.  Died of disease April 17, 
1864, St. Louis, Mo.  Buried in National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis), Mo.  
Section 34, grave 32.

COMPANY "A"

Phye, John S.  (Veteran.)  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Michigan.  Enlisted 
Aug. 31, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Jan. 1, 1864.  
Promoted Eighth Corporal April 13, 1864; Seventh Corporal Aug. 1, 1864' Sixth Corporal 
Jan. 1, 1865.  Died of disease Feb. 27, 1865, Gravelly Springs, Ala.  Buried in Shiloh 
National Cemetery, Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.  Section P, grave 25.

COMPANY "E"

Patterson, Francis A.  (Veteran.)  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Virginia.  
Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Seventh Corporal Jan. 1, 1864.  
Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted Sixth Corporal Jan. a, 1865; Fifth 
Corporal March 15, 1865; Fourth Corporal May 1, 1865; Third Corporal July 1, 1865.  
Mustered out Aug. 8, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "E"

Randall, Enoch.  Age 23.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861.  
Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Died of disease Dec. 14, 1861, St. Louis, Mo.  Buried in National 
Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis), Mo.  Section 50, grave 144.

Reynolds, George W.  (Veteran.)  Age 40.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  
Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861, as Sixth Corporal.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Reduced to Eighth 
Corporal.  Promoted Seventh Corporal Jan. 20, 1863; Sixth Corporal July 31, 1862; First 
Corporal Jan. 1, 1864.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 
1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Roberts, Eli.  (Veteran.)  Age 22.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 17, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Fifth Sergeant Feb. 27, 1863; Fourth Sergeant 
Jan. 1, 1864.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted Third Sergeant Dec. 7, 
1864.  Died of disease March 31, 1865, Jeffersonville, Ind.

COMPANY "D"

Snoddy, Henry.  Age 23.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Feb. 15, 1864.  
Mustered March 16, 1864.  Died of disease June 15, 1864, St. Louis, Mo.  Buried in 
National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis), Mo.  Section 8, grave 103.

Spurgeon, Andrew S.  Age 24.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Feb. 27, 
1864.  Mustered March 16, 1864.  Mustered out Aug. 9,, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "E"

Spence, Thomas.  (Veteran.)  Age 26.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Kentucky.  Enlisted 
April 2, 1863.  Mustered May 7, 1863.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  
Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Spencer, Horace A.  (Veteran.).  Age 45.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity New Hampshire.  
Appointed Second Lieutenant Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted First 
Lieutenant April 3, 1862; Captain Sept. 5, 1862.  Taken prisoner and paroled April 24, 
1862.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Resigned Aug. 22, 1864.

COMPANY "D"

Vandyne, William C.  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 24, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 9, 1861.  Died of disease Jan. 1, 1862, St. Louis, Mo.  Buried in 
National Cemetery, Jefferson Barracks (St. Louis), Mo.  Section 38, grave 148.

COMPANY "A"

Wetzel, James E.  Age 25.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Maryland.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 
1861, as Farrier.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Mustered out Sept. 14, 1864, Davenport, Iowa, 
expiration of term of service.

Wishard, William.  Age 45.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Kentucky.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 
1861, as Company Quartermaster Sergeant.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Promoted First 
Battalion Commissary Sergeant Sept. 20, 1861.  See Field and Staff.

COMPANY "E"

Ware, Reuben.  (Veteran.)  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Iowa.  Enlisted Aug. 
17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Trumpeter.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered 
Feb. 1, 1864.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Weiny, George.  (Veteran.)  Age 22.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Ohio.  Enlisted Aug. 
17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Taken prisoner and paroled.  Promoted Sixth Corporal 
Jan. 1, 1864.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted Fifth Corporal Jan. 1, 
1865; Fourth Corporal March 115, 1865; third Corporal May 1, 1865; Second Corporal 
July 1, 1865.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Williams, George W.  (Veteran.)  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Missouri.  
Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 
1864.  Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

Worley, John.  Age 27.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 29, 1862.  
Mustered Aug. 29, 1862.  Transferred to Invalid Corps.  Mustered out June 19, 1865, 
Nashville, Tenn.

Worley, Michael.  (Veteran.)  Age 27.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Tennessee.  
Enlisted Aug. 17, 1861.  Mustered Sept. 4, 1861.  Promoted Seventh Corporal April 3, 
1862; Sixth Corporal Jan. 29, 1862; Fifth Corporal July 31, 1863; Second Corporal Jan. 1, 
1864.  Re-enlisted and re-mustered Feb. 1, 1864.  Promoted Sixth Sergeant May 1, 1865.  
Mustered out Aug. 9, 1865, Atlanta, Ga.

COMPANY "A"

York, George E.  Age 26.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 
1861.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Promoted Eighth Corporal Sept. 1, 1862.  Discharged for 
disability Feb. 14, 1863, St. Louis, Mo.

Young, John W.  Age. 20.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Aug. 31, 
1861, as Second Corporal.  Mustered Sept. 7, 1861.  Promoted Fifth Sergeant July 31, 
1862; Fourth Sergeant Feb. 25, 1863.  Mustered out Sept. 13. 1864.


UNASSIGNED RECRUITS.

Keller, Pleasant M.  Age 19.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Illinois.  Enlisted Feb. 8, 
1864.  Mustered Feb. 16, 1864.  Died March 24, 1864.  Buried in National Cemetery, Little 
Rock, Ark.  Section 1, grave 365.

McDowell, Oscar.  Age 18.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Jan. 27, 
1864.  Mustered Jan. 27, 1864.  War Department reports: "Died of disease April 11, 1864, 
Cairo, Ills., as of Company E."

Martin, George A.  Age 29.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Dec. 25, 
1863.  Mustered Dec. 25, 1863.  No further record.

Yoder, Samuel.  Age 21.  Residence Bloomfield, nativity Indiana.  Enlisted Feb. 17, 1864.  
Mustered Feb. 17. 1864.  Died April 6, 1864.  Buried in National Cemetery, Little Rock, 
Ark.  Section 1, grave 388.

 

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