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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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site or east side, in the present rear of Colonel HallsBrigade. Again the men jumped over their works, and the most desperatefight of the day now took place. The enemy, having the cover of thewoods, could approach within fifteen or twenty yards of our works withoutdiscovery. Bebel commanders, with such men as would follow them,would not unfrequently occupy one side of the works and our men theother. Many individual acts of heroism here occurred. The flags of twoopposing regiments would meet on the opposite sides of the same works,and would be flaunted by their respective bearers in each others faces;men were bayoneted across the works, and officers with their swords foughthand to hand with men with bayonets. Colonel Belknap, of the FifteenthIowa Volunteers, took prisoner Colonel Lampley of the Forty-fifth Ala-bama, by pulling him over the works by his coat collar, being several timesfired at by men at his side. The colors of his regiment were taken at the 260 I()\\A AND THE REBELLION.
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BATTLE OF 4.TLANTA. OPERATIONS OF FOURTH DIVISION, SEVENTEENTH ARMY CORPS. FIFTEENTH IXFANTKY. 261 same time. The enemys loss in this attack must have been very severe.It lasted nearly three-quarters of an hour, when they reluctantly retired. There were other assaults on this part of the line, so that General Smithtruthfully declared the engamcnt here lasted seven hours with scarcely anylion, the only change being in the fuiy with which it raged. On otherparts of the field the battle closed some hours earlier, all that continuedafter about four oclock being like the pattering of rain which succeeds thewild thunder-storm. The battle of Atlanta was a warfare of giants. In the impetuosity,splendid abandon, and reckless disregard of danger with which the rebelmasses rushed against our lines of fire, of iron, and of cold steel, therehad been no parallel during the war, not even before the fortunate deathof Stonewall Jackson. Nor did the Union troops ever exhibit on any otherfield a more de

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