Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-09-08
3sth Iowa Regiment Reunion.

The survivors of the 3sth Iowa will
hold their Goth Annual Reunion on the
10th and 21st of this month, and all old
soldiers are requested to be present at
their meetings in the Court House on
the dates above mentioned. This regi-
ment held the left ut Vicksburg where
the line came down from the highlands
through the swamps to the waters
edge; the miasma from this swamp
laid hundreds of men on their backs
: and reduced the number of our regi-
ment from 500 good, stoLs husky men
to less than 400 in very few weeks.
The line of battle was miles long and
was defended by 22O cannon. z mortars
and about one hundred thousand
Lien. The mortars were throwing
shells into the city day and night; big
guns and small arms kept the line hot
in the day time. The surrender
occurred July 4. 1863. Gen. Logan,s
Division, which was the most advanced,
led the way into the city, accompanied
by Gen. Grant. There were surrender
ed !thirty-two thousand troops. fifty
thousand stand of arms, 40 cannon,
the finest in the United States, and an
enormous amount Of ordnance stores;
among the prisoners were 2, 1853 officers
and Is Generals. This was larger
army than Lee surrendered at Apo
mattox by four thousand. The results
were the immediate fall of Fort Hud-
son and the flowing Of the Father of
Waters untrameled to the sea, the
division of !, ! Confederacy, the domi-
nation of the channel Of the great
river, and the unchallenged control OF
the Empire watered by its tributaries.
While our boys were talking with the
prisoners of war, the rebs, they said
they would like to see those Austrian
rifles, they said they carried up re.
markably strong. We had some skilled
marksmen in Co. l, who could hit 2
mark every time. The 3Sth exchanged
their Austrian rifles for new Enfields
taken from the Rebs, also the drum
mers for new ones. This regiment
was at the capture of Fort Morgan,
Mobile Bay, first class fort under
Gen. Bailey who liberated the fleet on
Red r;;ver; wasin the charge at B'akely,
which gave US the city of Mobile; also
made the trip twice across the Gulf OF
Mexico on expeditions to Texas, to
Brownsville and to Houston.
FIELD OFFICERS OF 3Sth REGIMENT.
David H. Hughes, Colonel.
5 o. Hudnutt. Lieut.. Colonel.
Chas. Chadwick. Major.
Military Instructor. Lieut.. Col. 5. ID.
Brodtbeck.
Co. 1, j. H. B. Harris, Captain; w.
H. Powell, ls: Lieut., w. H. Patterson,
End Lieut..
Non. Commissioned Officers.
Sergeants-1st, b. D. Everingham;
End, Isaac Willis Poe; 3rd. Jonas +.
Adams; 4th. Fitz James Mckay; 5th,
Chas. w. Sawyer.
Corporals-lst, Alva J. Stearns'; End.
VIM. Winter*; 3rd, Madison Taft; 4th,
Cassius F. MITCHELL; 5th, James Held
ridge; 9Th, Ebenezer B. Sloan; 7th.
Gilbert G. Manning; Sth, Samuel L.
Thompson.
Simeon Hazeldine, Drummer.
Chas. w. Burgess and o. A. Bunker,
Filters.
o. d. Curtis, Wagner.
Cassius M. C. Abrams, Daniel c.
Ashley, Otis A. Adams, VIM. H.
Puckland*, Ardo Bryan, Chas. E.
Booth, Joeeph w. Brown, Jaron Ben
n ett, John P. Bossard'. Lorenzo F.
Bays, Geo. A. Crippen, Thomas Cum
minis, Chas. Craghill*, Seth c. Cole,
Thomas C. DeMoss'. Geo. W. Daws*,
George Duffey, Fred L. Dauberschmidt,
James Forester. Adam Fussel', John
Feather, John C. Gilman, Andrew j.
Garnsey'. Cornelius G. Guptil, Robert