The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
Nineteenth Iowa Infantry, Which Was
Mustered in at keokuk, Holds
a Happy Re-
union.
THE FIRST FROM IOWA
Joseph r. Fralley Delivered tho Ad-
dress of Welcome Last Night
at Camp Fire
Meeting.

FORT MADISON, Sept. 2s.-The
survivors of the Nineteenth Iowa in
fantry of the civil war were in their
annual reunion here yesterday. It
had notable history and its action
from the day 1t was mustered In at
Keokuk to the time 1t was mustered
out at Mobile, Ala, marked career
OF the most heroic deeds.
This regiment was the first in
Iowa's quota in response to President
Lincolns call of July, 1862, for an ad-
ditional army. 1t was mustered in
August IS, 1862. with the following
regimental officers:
Col Benjamin Crabb, Washington,
Iowa.
Lieutenant Colonel s. M. McEar-
land, Mt. Pleasant.
Major Daniel Kent.
Adjutant G. G.. Bennett, Washing
ton.
Surgeon, DR.. Harvey Bennett, Wash
ington.
Assistant surgeon, Hurst.
The regiment was sent to st. Louis
at once, where, on September IL, 1t
was attached to a brigade command
ed by General Frank j. Heron, and
went to Rolla, Mo-, and engaged in the
battles of Prairie Grove, Ark; Spring
! field, Mo-; Vicksburg and Yazoo,
Miss; and at Morganza, La, where
about 400 of the regiment were cap.
tured by the confederates under Gen.
! Dick Taylor, with the loss of a num-
Der killed and wounded. The prison
ers were held nearly ten months.
The regiment again in the field
went with General Heron on his ex-
1 pedition from New Orleans to take
Brownsville, Texas, on the frontier
bordering Mexico, for the purpose of
completing the blockade in that
country and preventing goods from
4 being smuggled in from Mexico and
other foreign territory. They were
also at Pensacola and Black Water
Bay, Florida. One of their last bat
ties and achievements was the cap
4 ture of Spanish Fort, one of the
main defenses around Mobile. This
4 fort was first assaulted on the TWEEN
/ ty-seventh of March, 1865, and was
taken by bloody and gallant charge
on the ninth of April. Till May the
regiment was employed in dis
mantling confederate defenses and
was then ordered to Dauphin Island
and to Mobile, June IA, and was
mustered out in that city July 10
1865, closing a courageous and hon
orable career.
The Reunion.
The veterans here at this reunion
4 did not include the entire list of sur
vivors; about 270 are still living, but
they are scattered throughout many
states and many sent regrets that
they were not able to meet with their
loved comrades in this reunion and
sit around the camp fire with them.
Present ReaImental officers.
President-D. D. Proper, Omaha,
Neb.
Vice PRESIDENT. e Hoagland,
Eldora. Iowa,
Secretary and treasurer-J. NJ.
Lytle, Of Washington, Iowa.
The Camp Fire.
The camp ire last night Wis
rlost interesting affair, with the fol
lowing program:
+ 7:3o p. m.-Music by the band and
SONGS by the Glee club
Address of welcome, by Joseph R.
Frailey, with a response by the pre-
siding officer.
Reading, by Miss Maud Miller
THE Rural Telephone
The camp fire was addressed by
Gen. ]. B. Leake of Chicago, most
prominent survivor of the civil war
Besides, there we're short addresses
from the comrades