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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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ifteen miles distant, and, General Smith coming up, Banksrmined again to offer battle. A line was formed, says Banks, in thefollowing order—First Brigade, Nineteenth Corps on the right; SecondBrigade in the centre, strengthened by a brigade of General Smiths for© 9(this means Shaws Brigade); Third Brigade on the left. There was con-ible skirmishing luring the morning, but the battle did oot fairly opentill after four oclock. At five oclock, it was raging heavily, the rebelsmoving at firs! againsl our right, but delivering their main attack againstthe centre, dow held by Colonel Shaw, who was without support either onhis righl flank or his lefl ; in a short time alter the oontest became generalNevertheless, be held his position, his four regiments pouring into the.• the mosl destructive volleys which ever swepl men into die valleyof the shadow of death. At one time, the enemy made a Uold cavalry THIRTY-SECOND INFANTRY. 607 BATTLE OF PLEASANT HILL. OPERATIONS OF SHAWS IRON BRIGADE.
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60S IOWA AND THE REBELLION. charge along the Shreveport road. When within short range of our linesthey were met by the unerring rifles of the Fourteenth, the Twenty-seventh,and the Thirty-second Iowa, when riders and steeds fell dead as thoughstruck by a thousand thunderbolts. Horses and men were hurled intoinstant death by that fearful volley. Scarcely a man escaped. The battlecontinued till dark, when the rebels put themselves in retreat, leaving usthe complete victors, and Shaws brigade the heroes of the fight. However, other troops did their whole duty, and among those from Iowa,the Thirty-fifth Infantry was conspicuous on another part of the field, andlost during the engagement about seventy men hors-de-comhat. Thebloody Fourteenth well sustained on the field of Pleasant Hill the repu-tation it had won in former battles. Lieutenant-Colonel Newbold, aChristian gentleman, and a brave, industrious, conscientious officer, fellmortally wounded. Here also fell, says Captain Warren C. J

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