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 and Sixteenth Iowa regiments, and was commanded by Colonel Crocker. Lieutenant-Colonel Price resigned on the 16th of April and was succeeded by Major Shane. Captain G. M. Van Hosen was promoted to major. The regiment was in the vicinity of Corinth most of the summer and was engaged in the two days’ battle at Corinth, on the 3d and 4th of October, meeting with slight loss. It was in General Grant’s Holly Springs campaign, and in January, 1863, was at Memphis. Major Van Hosen resigned on the 21st of that month and Adjutant James Wilson became major. Adjutant W. T. Clark had been promoted to Assistant Adjutant-General and his connection with the regiment ceased. In 1864 he was promoted to Brigadier-General.

During the winter the Thirteenth was moved to Milliken’s Bend and from there to Providence, where the men for some time assisted in work on the famous canal. Colonel Crocker was promoted to Brigadier-General, Shane to colonel of the regiment, Major Wilson to lieutenant-colonel; Captain W. A. Walker, of Company G, to major. The regiment was actively engaged in the closing campaign about Vicksburg and in Sherman’s movement against Johnston. Its losses in the various engagements were small, not exceeding forty men. During the remainder of the summer the Thirteenth was employed in various duties in the vicinity of Vicksburg. It was in the expedition to Monroe under General Stevenson, and in February, 1864, participated in the Meridian raid under General Sherman. The regiment had become reduced at this time to four hundred eighty-eight men. Of these three hundred and forty-three reënlisted as veterans. On the 16th of April they returned after a month’s furlough, and in June joined Sherman’s army in his march through Georgia. The Thirteenth lost several men on the picket lines and in various skirmishes. At Decatur, General Crocker, who was in command of the Fourth