Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-22
NUMBER or REGIMENTS.

NUMBER or REGIMENTS.
Adjutant Generals Office Gives Out
Some Valuable Information.
DEG Moines. Oct. 22.-The Office OF the
adjutant general of the state is In re-
ceipt of an inquiry from Col. j. Is. r
Thompson, of Rock Rapids, for speci-
f1c statement as to the system followed
by the office and the chief executive IN
designating the Spanish war regiments
Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, etc, and also ask
ing for statement as to the official
record of the number of organizations
sent by the state of Iowa into the civil
war.
Mr.. T. L. Stephens the clerk in
charge of the civil war records, has
spent considerable time developing the
status of the record on this matter. He
has discovered the following to be the
situation:
The state organized and sent to the
front forty full regiments of men. The
work of organizing the Forty-first regi-
ment was started and abandoned after
battalion had been raised. The bat
talon was soon transferred to the Sew
enth cavalry. The records show that
some effort was made to organize a
Forty-second and Forty-thfrd regiment.
This failed entirely. When the To-day
men were enlisted however, the records
show that four regiments and one bat
talon of them were raised. These were
designated as the Forty-fourth, Forty
fifth. Forty-sixth, Forty seventh and
Forty-eighth infantry regiments, altho
the last was composed of and served
with only 346 men. The record reveals
the fact that an effort was made to or
ganize the Forty-ninth infantry. also,
two men, only enlisting In 1t, at Dayen-
port The record shows the officers to
have been designated as from colonel to
drummer, and the other member of the
regiment was designated as the Grum-
mer.
When the Spanish war came on Gov
ernor Shaw and Gen. Byers regarded
themselves as justified in beginning the
designation of the infantry regiments
then mustered into service, as the For
ty-ninth, etc, altho the Forty-second
and Forty third never had an existence
and the Forty-first was transferred to a
troop later.
The state sent nine regiments OF cav
airy into the civil war and four bat
teries When the Burlington and Cedar
Rapids batteries were organized for the
Spanish war they were designated as
the Fifth and Sixth.
In addition to these organizations the
staet sent what was known as the
Sioux City cavalry, in which there were
ninety-three men. Iowa also furnished
Company A, of the Eleventh Pennsyl-
yarlia. composed of eighty seven men.
The state ALEC furnished what was des-
ignated as the First Iowa African in
fantry regiment, and also known as the
Sixtieth United States. The Dodge
band of fourteen pieces and the band OF
the Second Iowa, OF ten pieces, were
also sent to the front from Iowa.
Thus Mr.. Stephens figures that the
state, according to the record, had SIX
ty- six independent organizations during
the civil war as follows: Forty-eight
white infantry regiments. one negro In
fantry regiment, nine cavalry, one inde-
pendent company and two bands. OF the
infantry regiments, however, two We're
not organized, in fact, 80 that the state
had but sixty four independent organs
cations in service. at any time. Of
these one was consolidated with anoth-
or, SO that, correctly speaking, the state
had sixty-ttree organizations In the
war. With the. six furnished for the
Spanish war she can boast Of sixty
nine organizations which have engaged
IN national wars.
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