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Title: Iowa and the rebellion. A history of the troops furnished by the state of Iowa to the volunteer armies of the Union, which conquered the great Southern Rebellion of 1861-5
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Lurton Dunham
Subjects: Iowa -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Iowa Iowa -- Militia
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co. Dubuque, B.M. Harger (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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entered the city on the 2dof September. Saving participated in this last of the flanking movements,taking part in both battles, OUT regiment returned to the vicinity of East-port, and went into encampment. Since entering on the campaign of At-lanta, it had hem under the enemys fire on eighty-one days, and had been with its associates of the Iowa Brigade, in nearly all the principalbattle)- of tin- era of activity.1 Having taken pint, after a considerable rest at East Point) in a reoon-noissanee t some distance southwest thereof, the regiment joined in the i The Ui«ii<-« of Hi- regiment, after th «i ■:•■• • ■( Ltlantn, wan doI ssYore. The following ll«t sna-alli Wounded, Christopher Warren, Lewis Kelley, Frederic Borgi i i Lore) Prints U itthi « VI arts, llllam . i tfbnr of which wen wounded at Jonesboro and Love- Weils^ s£ Columbia (mortally), and the others at the battle of Bontonrill Sergeant! N» Fork from the effects1 of hai ■ FIFTEENTH INFANTRY. 267
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SIEGE OF ATLANTA MARCH TO LOVEJOY. 268 IOWA AND THE REBELLION. pursuit of Hood in October, and during this month, and the first part ofNovember, marched more than three hundred miles. It also performedthe march to Savannah, the Iowa Brigade being on this campaign in-creased by the addition of the Thirty-second Illinois, a gallant regimentcommanded by Colonel John Logan (cousin to the general), a gallant offi-cer, frequently called Butter John, -whereby hangs a tale. This regi-ment also continued with the brigade, as it went .dashing through theCarolinas on the northward march. This march had but just com-menced, when our regiment met with a sad loss in the death of CaptainRoger B. Kellogg, who was mortally wounded at Pocataligo, South Caro-lina, January 14th, 1865. He was a noble youth, the personification ofcourage, and as gentle-hearted as a woman. At Columbia and at Benton-ville, the regiment met slight loss. It moved to Goldsboro ; to Raleigh ; to Washington City by Petersburgand

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