The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-11-13
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OF THE
THIRD IOWA CAVALRY.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES AND PRESENT,

VI
the early part of August, 1861, under tn
authority of General Fremont, and rem
dezvoused at Keokuk, Iowa at whic
place it wasregulary mustered into the U
Sservice by Capt. Chas. c. Smith, of til
18th regulars, about the beginning OF Sep
TENDER of that year.
The following was the roster of tn
field and staff at date of the muster.
Cyrus Bussey-Colonel.
Henry Ii. Trimble-Lieut. Colonel.
Majors-Careton H. Perry, Henry c
Caldwell William G. Drake.
Regimental Adjutant-John W. No
Bile.
Battalion Adjutants-Horace D'B
Cutler, Rufus l.. Miller, Jonathan Daven
port.
Regimental Quarternaster-Enos 7
Cole.
Battalion termasters-Dudley Z
Jones, George w. Newell. Hiram II
Hand.
Surgeon-David L. McGugin.
Assistant Surgeon - Christopher c.
Bier
Shapialn-Pearl L. Ingalls,.
After two years Of active service. the
usual casualties have so lar changed the
above as to leave but few of the original
members with the regiment. Sickness,
wounds and death. together with desery-
vedly earned promotions, have so far al
tered it, that | feel it would not be tres
passing on your space too mnch to give
our present roster iLasmuch as the regi-
ment having been raised entirely in the
border counties-in which your paper
circulates extensively your readers
would like to know the situation of the
fayorlte regiment of southern Iowa:
Battalion Adju,ants and Quarlermas-
tiers being considered by the War Depart
ment as supertiuons, we're all mustered
out in the summer of 1869, and Com
missary and additional Assistant Surgeon
added to the staff. 1t now stands:
Cyrus Bussey-Colonel.
Henry G. Caldwel-Lieut. Colonel.
Majors-George Duffield, John w.
Noble
Adiutant-Glenn Lowe.
Fundamentally Theodore johnson.
Thomas H. Brown.
Surgeon-George w. Carter
Assistant Surgeon-Thomas j. Max
we'll
Assistant urgeon-Francis NJ. War
ford
The changes in the line officers have
been fully as great. But one of the orig.
lnal Captains now remains in the regiment
ltwould require too much space 10 give
even digest of these changes and the
causes thereof. Disease, contracted in
the discharge of their duty has, in most
instances been the cause of designations
many cases of wbich have since resulted in
death while others after recruiting their
health. have again Joined other organlza-
tons and are now battling for the Union.
will give, SO far as the limited iacili |
ties at my disposal aided by my recollec-
tons and disjointed notes, will admit,
brief summary Of the doings Of the regi- T
lnent up to the present time, Of course |
not referring to the innumerable minor t
sklrmlshes, marches aud expeditions, pro-
ductive of no material results save tired |
and WORKOUT horses and exhausted men.
And yet 1t is these marches and constant
scouts with their concomitant exposures
and hardships. and of which the world new.
er hears, that wears out and uses up our
armies. Hundreds die of disease SUPER
induced by deleterious climatic influences
on these same scouts, to where one falls
by the bullet of the enemy, but nothing
Is ever heard of it. The public cages the
service of regiment by its battles
Its losses 10 fights and skirmishes, and it
Is these though but 1.-THE of its actual
service, that propose to sketch.
CAMP RANKIN-KEoKUK
During the organization of the regi-
ment and while waiting for equipments,
uniforms, arms &c, it camped on the river
at the upper part of town, at camp Rankin,
while yet without equipments. save horses,
OF which nearly every man furnished his ..
own, with about 800 carbines, an expedi- ,
ton under Capt. Wayne (since killed at
was sent to Memphis, Mis-
suuri, and thence to Edna under Colonel
Moore, which returned without effeciing |,
This was about the Goth Of
August, 1861, and the first scout At
tlat time Mart. Green was fourishing ex-
tensively, and keeping the border In a !.
state of feyerish excitement, and was
shortly after the Athens fight.
la September difficulty was apprehend-
ed III Clark county, Missouri, and de- 5
taehment OF 400 men under Major Perry
secuted through that county anu returned u
without discovering the enemy. In the I
same month zoo Of the Third were sent !
to Canton, Mo, to report to Col. Glover. D
They made successful expedition C
through Clark, Lewis and Knox counties :
dispensing rebel bands, and after two e
weeks of hard service, returned to camn n
These and other expeditions we're made 4
with only such equipments as could be Il
obtained for the occasions. e
BENTON DARRAcKs-sT. LOUIS. :
On OF about Nov. lst the regiment was '
fully equipped and mounted, and on the ,
4th, IN obedience to orders from General Il
Prentlss, 1t leil keokuk for Benton Bar. n
racks, 81 Louis, arriving on the I'll. l
trom which time it was put under severe d
discipline and drill until it took tho ella h