An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . andwas mustered in the government service by Capt. H. B. Hender-shott, at Muscatine in September, 1862.


An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . andwas mustered in the government service by Capt. H. B. Hender-shott, at Muscatine in September, 1862. The following were thefield officers: Eber C. Byam, colonel; J. Q. Wilds, lieutenantcolonel ; Ed. Wright, major; Chas. L. Byam, adjutant; L. Bald-win, Jr., quartermaster; J. F. Ely, surgeon ; H. M. Lyons, assist-ant surgeon; F. W. Vinton, chaplain. The twenty-fifth regiment was organized from companies enlistedin Washington, Henry, Des Monies and Louisa, and was mus-tered into the government service at Mount Pleasant in Septem-ber, 1862, by Capt. Geo. S. Pierce. The field officers were, Stone, colonel; Fabian Brydolf, lieutenant colonel ; CalvinTaylor, major; S. Kirkwood Clark, adjutant; Fred. J. Clark,quartermaster; W. S. Marsh, surgeon; Jas. D. Gray, assistantsurgeon, and Thos. E. Corkhill, chaplain. The twenty-sixth regiment was made up of enlisted men fromthe county of Clinton, and was mustered into the governmentservice September and October, 1862, by Capt. H. B. Hender-. 306 Tuttles History of Iowa. shott, at Clinton. The officers of the regiment were, Milo Smith,colonel; Samuel G. Magill, lieutenant colonel; Samuel Clark,major; Thos. Gr. Ferreby, adjutant; Thos. H. Flint, quartermaster;A. T. Hudson, surgeon; W. McQuigg, assistant surgeon, andJohn McLeish, Jr., chaplain. The twenty-seventh regiment was raised by companies organ-ized in the counties of Alamakee, Buchanan, Clayton, Delaware,Floyd, Chickasaw and Mitchell, and was mustered into the gov-ernment service


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