The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-11
IOWA AND THE REBELLION.

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known publishing house of j. B. LIPPiScor
4 Co., Philadelphia, and is, in mechanica
execution. splendid work. Mr.. INGERsoI1
writes with great force clearness, and elegance
His work bears evidences of severe and pro
longed research and much painstaking. givin,
proof Of accuracy and trustworthiness. Hi
volume will doubtless take high rank anon,
the histories of the times and is of endurin,
value to the people of Iowa. Writing will
love for his subject, and with Just pride il
Iowsand its people, he does not suffer tha
feeling to pervert his judgment or affect hi.
impartiality as historian, but performs his
task carefully, judiciously and well. Contain.
ing the record of actions that are imperisha-
bly, connected with the age in which we live,
which have made the sons of the State heroes,
and given Iowa proud fame which it shall
ever be the affectionate labor and loyal duty
OF her citizens to cherish and maintain, this
work will doubtless find a place in nearly
every Iowa home
The volume will contain about seven hun
dred pages, will bs sold at $3.50, and be pub
lished within a month. The descriptions of
battles, seges, &c, are clearly written and
illustrated with admirably prepared maps
We make such extracts as, while illustrating
the authors style, shall alsointerest our read
ers. There are only two chapters before us
and they are devoted to the First and Second
Iowa Infantry. OF the organization of the
First, the author says:
Now was emphatically the era of the ro-
nance of the war. The different orpaniza.
tons which formed the regiment were feted
and lionized by their friends and neighbors
with as much enthusiasm as ever were
e4ghts emLarslng on crusade TO the Holy
Land. flags were presented and received in
speeches whose gorgeous ooloring had very
little Of the melancholy hue of blood. The
ladies' assembled at the town and city halls,
with needles, scissors, sewing machines and
what not helped the tailors to get ''the bows
thoroughly uniformed. Drums were beating.
hfes playing on every street corner All the
pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war
ragged in full force, none of wars sad realities
having, as yet been brought to the hearth
stones OF the people. When the companies
left Their various camps forthe general rem
devious at the city'of keokuk, they were es
oorted to the trains or steamers bv vast
crowds, who hade sdieu to the departing with
cheers, waving OF flags, and salvos of the best
artillery which could be had
As it had been with friends at home, so il
was with the citizens of Keokuk, who extend
ed towards the soldiers kindness, courtesy and
hospitality, without stint, with degree OF
enthusiasm, in fact, worthy cf eiiyairous So
tlety and noble cause.
Ii WAS early IN the morning of June l3, that
a steamer arrived at keokuk, bearing orders
from General Lyon TO Colonel Curtis. Second
Iowa, commanding him to report immediate
ly, with hs regiment, ia Missouri. Orders
came at the same time to Colonel Bates 1t
was evident the stirring time had come at last
By daylight Colonel Curtis had his command
steaming down the Mississippi, but it was 5
o clock in the afternoon before Colonel Bates
moved, as he had to wait for TRANSPORTATION
! that Eoug, the reginent marched to the
rtFei. at once embarked and was talrlyon the
way before dusk. a large coucourse Of peo- |
pie assembled 10 witness the departure !
Whilst the crowd on shore and the soldiers on
board were shouting themselves hoarse, the |
steamer left the wharf, and turned down the |
majestic stream. Just rs the shades Of night
game On, the reglmehtal bald struck up the |
air OF Dixie Land, and the people OF the |
hospltable city sought their homes while its |
notes continued to float back on the evening |
air
We make an extract from the description of
the battle of Wilson Creek:
: He4Ees, tle pos.non taken by General Lyon
we're the Missouri troops under Generals |
Slack, Mcbride, Clark, Parsons. and Rains. !
and these Immediately advanced in large |
numbers against our line where General Iyon
was commanding in person, They were
quickly repulsed, and driven back clear out
OF sight, escaping In great confusion and with !
speed through the woods. Captain Plum /
faer ; hattalion, numbering only two hundred |
6nd fifty men, were attacked in @ corn field |
by 3 Louisiana and Arkansas regiment. where |
occurred a desperate conflict of musketry. |
The gallant little band of Unionists sustained |
this attack of an overwhelming force, every |
man keeping back eight enemies, for more
than an hour, when Captain Plummer was
severely wounded, and his troops sullenly
fell back to the main line, fighting as they
went. SgeCs rear attack had q. first bsen |
entirely successful, but an oyerpnweting force
was soon sent against him. and he was badly
whipped Five of his six guns were cap.
tured, and almost his entire command dis.
persed and driven pell nell from the field.
Meanwhile the main battle where Lyon him
sell commanded was raging furiously. Both
SIDES were lighting desperately for the field.
The artillery of both armies kept up 9 cen
stant cannonaae, ours doing fine execution,
but the shot OF the enemy nearly all the while
passing over the heads Of the Cnionists and
doing no harm. The rattle of musketry was
as rapid, as unintermittent, as at the battle of
Fair Oaks IN Virginia nearly a year after
wards, so graphically described in the cele-
6rated narrative or Mr.. Samuel Wilkeson.
T resh troops, some from Louisiana, some
from Arkansas, some frcm Texas, and others
still hohi Missouri, #sre asaip brought
fell back a few yards, but regathering
strength sprang to its place and steadily
drove back the enemy. Again and again
they moved to the attack, and again and
again were repulsed with fearful slaughter.
ne woods were strewn with their dead and
wounded, whilst our own disabled were going
e'a oeihg porne ceaselessly lo toe Tear.
General Lyon was himself twice wounded
before The fight had been going on two hours,
q ana ms morse had been shot dead Ii was
ior SIX nours as pitiless storm of bullets as
ever ieh upon battle field, whilst the roar of
siulery maze continuous and deafening
so far off as Springfield
1t was while the contes, was ,b,s soo,u
raging, that the losa First won ,he dyine sd.
miration Of their Beloved general, snds in.
perishabls renown.
OF the result of the battle, it Is said:
Even upon the admission that 1t was de.
Ieat to the Union arms, it had the moral
effect of victory, just as the battle of
Bunker Hill had in the revolution The
troops who fought under Lyon cannot be per-
suaded that they we're defeated Their gal