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 major, who lost his right leg. The next day at Bentonsville the entire brigade fought bravely and received the commendation of superior officers. This was the regiment’s last battle. The losses during the campaign were seven killed, sixty-four wounded and twelve missing. The command forming the rear of the army reached Goldsboro on the 26th of March. From there it moved on to Raleigh and, after the surrender of Johnston’s army, by way of Richmond to Washington. The Iowa Brigade was in the grand review of the Union army on the 23d and 24th of May, where it attracted general attention from the martial bearing of its veteran regiments. The Twenty-fifth Iowa went into camp at Crystal Springs near the city, where it was mustered out on the 6th of June, returning to Davenport, where it was soon after disbanded. On the 13th of March Colonel Stone was commissioned Brigadier-General. THE TWENTY-SIXTH IOWA INFANTRY

This regiment was made up of Clinton County men, although Jackson and Jones counties made contributions to the ranks. It was mustered into the service at Clinton on the 30th of September, 1862. The field officers were Colonel Milo Smith, Lieutenant-Colonel S. G. Magill, Major Samuel Clark, Adjutant Thomas G. Ferreby. Very little time was given for drill before the regiment was ordered South, going to Helena on the 28th of October. Its first service in the field was under General Hovey on the White River expedition. Two of its prominent field officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Magill and Major Clark, were so unfortunate as to be captured at Helena and both resigned on the 2d of December. After a march into Mississippi, in support of General Grant’s first movement against Vicksburg, the regiment was assigned to the Third Brigade, First Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps. With General Sherman in his bloody defeat at Chickasaw Bayou it suffered no loss. On the 2d of January, 1863, it was sent