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 Stirling Farm, who had been exchanged, joined the regiment. It was a joyful meeting of comrades long separated. Many had died during the imprisonment, and Captain William Adams died from its effects soon after reaching New Orleans.

On the 14th of August the regiment embarked for Pensacola, Florida, where it remained scouting in the adjacent country until the 6th of December, when it was sent to Fort Gaines in Alabama, and from there into Mississippi, where it had frequent skirmishes with the enemy. In January, 1865, the Nineteenth was back at Fort Gaines, and took a conspicuous part in the brilliant campaign of marches, siege and engagements which resulted in the capture of Mobile. The regiment was in the assault on the Spanish Fort where the Eighth Iowa covered itself with glory. In this battle the Nineteenth lost four killed and seventeen wounded. The fall of Mobile was substantially the last battle of the war and in July the Nineteenth Iowa was there mustered out of service. Returning to Davenport it was disbanded the last of the month, being then under command of Colonel John Bruce.

THE TWENTIETH IOWA INFANTRY

This was one of the first regiments raised in Iowa under the call for 300,000 volunteers issued in July, 1862, and was formed of ten companies raised in Scott and Linn, each of these counties furnishing five companies. They were rendezvoused at Clinton, where the organization of the regiment numbering nine hundred two men, was completed on the 20th of August. Captain William McE. Dye, who had served in the regular army, was commissioned colonel; J. B. Leake, lieutenant-colonel; William G. Thompson, major; C. S. Lake, adjutant. Leake and Thompson had been prominent members of the Legislature. A week after organization the regiment went to Camp Herron at Davenport, where it remained a few days before