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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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everely wounded, fell into our hands. The total number of prisoners cap-tured by us was nearly one thousand. The rebel general Little was killed,and Whitfield mortally wounded. It is certain the enemys loss was muchmore severe than our own. They felt that they had been thoroughlywhipped. I know this, says a rebel officer, in the Jackson Mississip-pian, that the events of that evening have considerably increased my appetite for peace, and If the Yankees will not shoot at us any more, 1 shall be perfectly satisfied to let them alone. It was a terrible Rtrn and We lost heavily. The Union loss in killed, wounded, and missing, was probably about one thousand, though it is put down in the official re-ports at seven hundred and ninety-nine. General Hamilton make- his ami he did the prinoipal pari of the fighting -one hundred and thirty-five killed, five hundred and twenty leven wounded, and tweiity-.-ix miss-ing. Among our wounded officers were Colonel Chambers, Sixteenth FIFTH INFANTRY. 103
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104 IOWA AND THE REBELLION. Iowa, Colonel Eddy, Forty-eighth Indiana, and Colonel Boomer, Twenty-sixth Missouri. The regiments from Iowa which particularly distinguished themselves inthis short, sharp contest were the Fifth and the Sixteenth. The Tenth alsoperformed valuable service on the left flank, and received a complimentarynotice from General Rosecrans. The Seventeenth had the misfortune toreceive the censure of the General commanding. It was under the com-mand of Colonel Rankin, who had offered his resignation some time before,on account of the requirements of his personal business, and who nevermade a report of the part taken by his regiment in the battle. The censureof General Rosecrans was unjust, for, though the regiment was thrown intoconfusion, it was because of the break-neck stampede through its lines ofthe general commanding, himself, and his prodigious staff. It lost in theaction, forty-one killed and wounded, and has since, without a single failureor rebuke, made a r

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