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History

of the

First Regiment

Iowa Cavalry

From Its Organization in 1861 to Its Muster Out of the United States Service in 1866

Also

A COMPLETE ROSTER OF THE REGIMENT

By CHARLES H. LOTHROP, M.D.

SURGEON

LYONS, IOWA

BEERS & EATON. PRINTERS, MIRROR OFFICE

1890

430 pages on 1 CD

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INDEX

Acknowledgment

Advance on Little Rock

Adventures of Dismounted Members

Additional Announcement

Affidavit Surgeon Lothrop

Affidavits and Statements of Ouster’s Cruelty

Alexandria Execution of Soldiers

Announcement

Assassination of Lincoln

Assignment to Special Duty

Battle of Blackwater

Battle of Silver Creek

Battle of Montevallo

Battle of Warsaw

Battle of Marais des Cygnes

Battle of Lotspeach Farm

Battle of Big Creek Cliffs

Battle of Clear Creek

Battle of Lone Jack

Battle of Newtonia

Battle of Cross Hollows

Battle of McGuire s Ford

Battle of Prairie Grove

Battle of Dripping Springs

Battle of VanBuren

Battle of Yellville

Battle of Kingston

Battle of Midnight Attack

Battle of Jackson

Battle of Spring Hill

Battle of Chalk Bluffs

Battle of Bloomfield

Battle of St. Francis River

Battle of Salem, Ill

Battle of Bayou Metoe

Battle of Cape Girardeau, Ill

Battle of Brownsville

Battle of Little Rock

Battle of Princeton

Battle of Arkadelphia

Battle of Spoonville

Battle of Antoine

Battle of Elkin’s Ford

Battle of Prairie d’Anne

Battle of Camden

Battle of Moro Creek

Battle of Jenkins Ferry

Battle of Persia Hills

Battle of Centralia

Price’s Raid

Battle of Osage River

Battle of California

Battle of Dardanelles

Battle of Big Hatchie

Battle of Moro River Bottom

Bandbox Battalion

Benton Barracks

Burlington

Capture of Little Rock

Camden Expedition

Capture of Marmaduke

Capture of Camden

Changes in Medical Staff

Changes of Personal History of the Regiment

Close and Personal History of 1863

Copies of General Sterling Price s Orders

Collinsville

Close of 1865, Personal History, etc

Colonel McQueen s Speech

Custer s Cruelty

Departure from Little Rock

Dismounted Battalion

Detached Service

Evacuation of Camden

Expedition to Henry, Bates and St. Clair Counties. Mo

Expedition to Oregon County

Expedition under Brigadier General Vandever

Fall of Richmond

Furlough Surgeon Lothrop

Furlough. Veteran

First Prisoner of the Campaign

General Preface

General Marmaduke Taken In

Major General G. A. Custer Assumes Command

General Custer s Letter

Governor Stone s Letter

General S. D. Sturgis in Command

General Custer’s Statement

General Custer’s Statement

General Forsytes Endorsement

General Custer and Staff Ordered Mustered Out

General Custer Leaves Between Two Days

General Thompson’s Staff

General Marmaduke’s Report

Horace C. Cure Whipped

Horse Race

Introduction to Pup Tents

Inspection of Regiment by U. S. A. Officers

Jack Rutter Beaten

Letter of Lieutenant Chas. W. W. Dow

Letter of Captain Rowland, Eighteenth Iowa Infantry

Lieutenant Colonel McQueen’s Reply

Leave Austin, Texas

March to Spring-field, Mo

March to Lake Springs

March to St. Louis

Massacre of Centralia

March to Pine Bluffs

March to Texas

March for Austin, Texas

Midnight Attack

New Organization of Regiment

Necrology

No Quinine

Number of Enlistments

Organizations of Companies

Organization of Corps Field Hospitals

Operations of Veteran Portion Regiment

Ordered to Memphis, Tenn

Ordered to Texas

Organization of Board of Surgeons

Obnoxious Orders Revoked

Ordered to Report to General Rosecrans as Body Guard

Orders-General- General J. W. Davidson

General G. A. Custer

No. 14

Special General G. A. Custer

No. 35

Orders Special No. 37 226

No. 20

Complimentary General J. W. Davidson

General E. A. Carr

Congratulatory General Fred Steele

Order Lieutenant Colonel Caldwell

Farewell Order General J. W. Davidson

Whipping- Order

Personal Sketches

Princeton

Purchase of Medicine

Promotions

Rations Hog- Jowls

Reception of Governor Soliman

Resolutions Iowa State Legislature

Report of Lieutenant Colonel McQueen

Reply to Marmaduke’s Report

Report of Major General Steele

Report of General J. W. Davidson

Report of Lieutenant Craig

Report of Lieutenant Colonel Drake

Reminiscences of Army Life

Roster of Officers of Regiment

Roster

Saber Presentation to Gen. J. W. Davidson

Sickness in Regiment

Steamer Starlight

Sold Race

Veteran Furlough

1861-62

1863

1864

1865

1866