Page:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 2.djvu/16

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  paign—Participates in the Battles About Chattanooga—With Sherman in Campaign in the Southern States 179-194
XIV The Eleventh Iowa Volunteers—First Service in Missouri—Sent to Grant’s Army in Tennessee—In the Battle of Shiloh—Serves in the Vicksburg Campaign—At the Battles of Bolivar and Corinth—A Disastrous March into Central Louisiana—With Sherman’s Army at the Battle of Atlanta—Colonel Charles Foster Killed.

Twelfth Iowa Volunteers—Sickness at Benton Barracks—With Grant at the Capture of Forts Henry and Donelson—Magnificent Fighting at Shiloh—Forced at Last to Surrender—Suffering in Rebel Prisons—In the Battle of Tupelo—Gallant Defense of the Stockade on White River—With Thomas at the Battle of Nashville

195-203
XV The Thirteenth Iowa Volunteers—M. M. Crocker its First Colonel—Engaged in the Battle of Shiloh—In the Two Days’ Battle at Corinth—Participates in the Vicksburg Campaign—With Sherman’s Army in March to the Sea—Gallant Conduct at the Battle of Atlanta—Hoists the Union Colors Over the Capitol of South Carolina—In the Battle of Bentonsville.

The Fourteenth Iowa Volunteers—In the Capture of Fort Donelson—Among Gallant Fighters at the “Hornet’s Nest” in the Battle of Shiloh—Finally Forced to Surrender—Exchanged in November, 1862—Sent to General Bank’s Army in Louisiana—Capture of Fort De Russey—The Disastrous Red River Expedition—Colonel Shaw Commands the “Iron Brigade”—Its Heroic Fighting at Pleasant Hill—Colonel Shaw Criticises Superiors—Their Revenge on the Colonel—General A. J. Smith’s Tribute to Colonel Shaw’s Patriotism, Courage and Ability

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XVI Fifteenth Iowa Volunteers—Baptized in Fire at Shiloh—Incorporated in the “Iowa Brigade”—Bel-