fourth Iowa bore a brilliant part. No regiment in that famous and desperate battle fought more steadfastly and heroically all through the varying fortunes of the day than the Twenty-fourth. Nearly a hundred of its officers and men were killed or disabled. The brave Colonel Wilds was mortally wounded and died soon after the battle. Major Ed Wright, Captains E. H. Pound, A. R. Knott and A. M. Loomis and Lieutenant C. H. Kurtz were wounded, and Captain W. W. Smith and Lieutenant Charles Davis were taken prisoners.
The regiments remained in Virginia until early in January, 1865, when it was sent to Savannah, Georgia, where it remained two months, afterward doing duty in North Carolina and various part of Georgia. It was mustered out of the service on the 17th of July, 1865, at Savannah. During the term of service one colonel and six of its captains were killed, and the regiment participated in nine of the great battles of the war. No State ever contributed a better regiment to the Union army.[1]
- ↑ Levi L. Hoag, corporal of Company C, kept a diary in which was briefly recorded a history of the doings of the regiment every day from the time it left Muscatine until it returned to Iowa at the close of the war. He served through the entire war in the exposed position of color bearer without receiving a scratch.
