Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1865-02-23

Almost simultaneously with the close
Of 1854, the state Ut Iowa glvea ~ the
public It's AMatant Generals report
FOR the year The fact that Iowa 10
tho only State which has All excess
over all oalls Tor men attaches u pecr-
har interest to Ms military opera tons,
and the same eifeumatanecs. willNwar
rant more than mere passing nllusion
to the prominent share which this gal
liant young State has taken in the con-
test.
-. In looking over the full and hand
somely printed report of Iowa, citizens
Of Illinois will be mortified at the con-
trast as he compares il with those Of
his own State. The entire matter fur
nished by General Fuller of this State
with reference to all that has been
done by the great State of Illinois does
not include more than third of the
matter that is contained in the report
of one years doings by Iowa. The
former is mainly complimentary doc
nment, intended for the fulsome adula-
ton of Gov. Yates the latter has
four lines of compliment to the guber-
material power, and eight hundred pa
gees of information for the people. The
one is a eulogy of our State authori-
ties, with few appended facts in re-
lation to our soldiers the other is
document in no wise intended for cleo
tioneering purposes, but is devoted
solely to history Of the military af-
fairs of the State 1t may be remark
ed, in this connection, that it is dis
grace to our State that the only record
we have Of the prominent part taken
by Illinois in the struggle, is a dry,
official pamphlet which is confined to
giving the names and regiments Of
those who have entered the service.
The Iowa report is most creditable
to the State Iowa has a voting pop
ulation of one hundred and twelve to
one hundred and fifteen thousand, and
of this sparse number, nearly or quite
sixty thousand have been put into the
field. To day number fully equal to
one-half of the votes of the Hawkeye
State are under arms. Nor are the
men who have been sent to the field
canaile, bought in the social kennels of
Europe, or refuse negroes picked up
among the camps. ......,..
With the exception Of a single ne
gro regiment, the Iowa troops are all
natives Of the State and, without ex I
ception, every Iowa man in the service
has been enlisted for the full term of
three years or for the war" While
being entitled 10 the credit of furnish
ing its men from its own soil, Iowa
has the further credit of having placed
such a number of men in the field that
it has not only an excess over all calls
yet made, but is prepared to respond
to another call of three or five hundred
thousand men without being under the
necessity of furnishing an additional
recruit. These facts speak volumes
for the patriotism of q State to which
the war has never brought one dollar
Of gain. aEr.Eet.
TO the general reader, the most in
teresting portion Of General Bakers
report is that which contains record
Of the operations of every Iowa regi-
ment. Fully one-half of the volume is
devoted to the history of the regiments
in the field, and it gives, either in an
official or narrative form the perform
ances of each regiment during the
year. BY the employment of this plan,
a record of the troops is kept /; the re-
giments are encouraged by knowing
that their labors all reach the public,
and furthermore, condensed account
is preserved, which only needs the am
plification of the author to become his
tory.
All honor to the enterprise and gal
lantry of Iowa. She has uncomplain-
ingly aud unselfishly borne more than
her share of the onerous burdens of
the war and in the field her sons have
carried the stars and stripes well in
the front, and make the name of Iowa
soldiers synonymous with heroism and
invincibiiity. Chicago Times, oh inst.