The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-07-18
The Fourth Iowa Cavalry.

Capt. Jenkins.
The Fourth Iowa Cavalry.
From a letter written by Jas. B. Gregg
Company K, 4th Iowa Cavalry to his moth
er. we extract the following. account of tn,
attack on a portion of the regiment, neal
the Big Black river, rear of Vicksbure
on the ed ult. 1t contains list of the
killed, wounded and missing, which may
be of personal interest to some of our read.
ers. The letter is dated June Goth:
"About one hundred ofour regiment had
been in the habit of patroling the road from
our camp to Black river, distance of ten
miles, daily. On Monday, the I'D inst.
our company, "K, with "a 81" and
"J,' amounting to one hundred and TWEEN
ty men, went on the patrol as usual, with
orders 20 blockade the road on our return.
We proceeded to the river, returned to the
bluff and commenced falling timber across
the road. We had been at work but a
short time when our pickets gave the
alarm and wemounted our horses and rode
up as fast as possible towards them. Our
pickets met us half way, all broke to pieces
and the rebels close on them.
We formed as quick as possible and
opened fire on the rebels, who by this time
had rode right up TO US. Our fire stopped
them, and for about ten minutes we fought
them at distance from ten to two hundred
yards in open ground. Our company was
in the advance and formed within thirty
yards of the rebel column, then charged up
to them and fought them right over the
fence. Company "a" We're in columns OF
four in the road, and ''F'' We're on the left
side. Our volleys made the rebels recoil
and fall back at first, but they came on
thicker and faster. We then fell back
about ~ hundred and fifty yards into the
timber. where we held our position until
Some were entirely out and had taken some
from the boxes our wounded.
We then broke for tall timber" not
knowing OF any road by which we could
get to camp. We found one, however, at
ter riding mile through the timber
When we began our retreat the rebels
were almost around us. A great many OF
our men had dismounted to fight on foot
their horses had broke away and some OF
them were taken in the retreat. Our loss
was as follows:
Company A,-Killed.-Ser w T Biggs,
John Mann, James Buttercase, Andrew
Chapel, Wilson Hunt, Geo. Vandoran.-
Wounded-Levi Williamson, James Liv-
ingston, badly. Missing-Joseph Pierce,
Charles Smith, Dorm Hunt, John McClin-
took, John Shurley, Isaac Scott, James
Fletcher and William Dean.
Co. F,-Missing.-Gartin Henshaw, Eli
jah Busby,, James Andrews, II. R. W..
Saddler, Solomon Brennan, William Glas-
COW, II. w. Curtis, G. Carter, Jonathan
Anthony and Henry Wages.
Co. I,-Killed-A. Sull. Wounded-Ser-
geant G. w. Caskey and - Minor. Miss
ing-Lieut w. J. McConnelee, J. B. An
g. Currier, Win Johnson and l.. Steward.
Co. K,-Killed-Jno. w. Yancy and Jno.
Milton Frame. Wounded-Lieut. Joshua
Gardner, MORALLY, William Hole, danger
ously in head and breast, Jas. ID. Moore,
dangerously, J. Vanorsdol, slightly, Char
ley Foster, slightly, Mathew Ross, slightly,
and Silas Bayne, slightly. Missing-Fran-
els s. Ramey, David Cavenee, John Kirk
patrick, William Miller, Robt. Stockton,
w. J. Bayles and Harlan Japeson, Total
n' so@e OF t,,s missing f WMSouaMdea W.
know, but we do not know who they afe.-
We found one Of them dead two days after
wards but could not recognize him. A
great many who came out whole had either
their horses killed under them or bullet
holes through their clothes.
We learned from their Surgeon who re-
manned behind to take care Of the wounded,
that we killed seventeen of them, two Of
whom were Captains, and wounded q Ma
jor and one man so badly that they could
not carry them off the field. Their woun-
ded was most probably twice as large as
their killed, and, upon the whole 1 think
we gave them the hot end of the poker if
they did drive us off the field.
They were parts of three regiments-Ad-
ans cavalry, the 18th Alabama, and the
10th Mississippi mounted infantry, and
were at least seven hundred strong. We
were too busily engaged to note how time
passed, but citizen afterwards told us
that the fighting lasted from IL till II by
the clock, and was the hardest cavalry
fight he ever heard. The secesh Major and
companion have been paroled and will
count for nine of our missing. AS the Ma
jor is shot through the lungs he will hard
" live. He says that we were the hardest
set of fellows they ever fell in company
with.
DO not write all this to praise our men,
although it is customary for each regiment
to blow its own bugle nowadays. But
think it due to the brave men who fell to
tell their friends that they fell bravely, and
to those who were taken that they surren-
dered not while they had bullets to hurl at
the foe
ENGLISH MERCHANTS PROTESTING
AGAINST THE OUTFIT OF ANGLo-REBEL
PIRATES Thirty-two of the leading ship
ping merchants of Liverpool have address
sed the following important memorial to
Earl Russell, protesting in earnest terms
against further violations Of the neutrality
laws by the building and outfit of Rebel
vessels IN British ports.
1t is evident, from the tenor Of the pro-
test. that the merchants and the people OF
England are at least beginning to see
how England herself may yet be sufferer
from practices similar to those which have
been permitted by her Government. The
following is the merchants memorial:
To the Right Honorable the Earl Russell,
her Majesty's Principal Secretary Of State
far the E0reiOn J)eDGrtulent.