Captain N. B. Howard, major. For the next year, the Second did duty in Tennessee, and, at the end of 1863, became a veteran regiment. It was in a brigade commanded by General E. W. Rice, and in the Sixteenth Corps under General G. M. Dodge, when it joined Sherman’s army in the Atlanta campaign. It was in the battle of July 22d, before Atlanta and other engagements following. In November 1864, three companies of the Third Regiment, and one company of recruits and drafted men were consolidated with the Second, and Lieutenant-Colonel Howard was promoted to colonel; G. S. Botsford, lieutenant-colonel; M. G. Hamill, major; and V. P. Twombly, adjutant. The regiment continued with General Sherman’s army to the close of that brilliant campaign and marched north by Richmond and Washington, and at the close of the war, was disbanded at Davenport. No better regiment ever entered the service than the gallant Second; it sustained the high reputation of Iowa soldiers won by the immortal First at Wilson’s Creek. Its first colonel, Curtis, resigned a seat in Congress to enter the service, and became one of the great Generals of the war, for a long time commanding the Army of the Southwest, in Missouri and Arkansas. Crocker became a distinguished Major-General, and Tuttle, a Brigadier-General. Colonel J. B. Weaver was twice a candidate for President of the United States, and for two terms a prominent member of congress from Iowa. Tuttle was, in 1863, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Iowa. Chipman became General Curtis’ chief of staff. He was Judge-Advocate of the court which tried and hung was brevetted Brigadier-General. McKenney served on the staff of three different Major-Generals, and was brevetted Brigadier-General. Twombly served four years as State Treasurer of Iowa.
