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 operations were in the State of Arkansas where services were largely confined to scouting, guard and garrison duties. Although this was one of the best regiments sent from Iowa, its officers and men having largely seen active service in the filed, it so happened that during the entire term of enlistment the fortune of war did not offer the opportunity to participate in any of the great battles. Its services were no less valuable to the Union cause, however, than of those engaged on historic fields. Detachments of the regiment often encountered small parties of the enemy in heavy skirmishes, in which their skill and courage were tested, proving that they were in no respect inferior to any troops in the field. Colonel Trumbull was brevetted a Brigadier-General, John Wayne and John J. Young were promoted to majors in the places of Drummond and Haddock, who resigned. The regiment was mustered out of service in February and March, 1866.

“THE HUNDRED DAYS’ MEN”

During the summer of 1864 when the armies of Grant and Sherman were slowly penetrating the Southern Confederacy and engaging its veteran armies in great battles the Governors of the Northwestern States proposed to raise a number of regiments for a short term of service, for the purpose of relieving experienced troops then on guard and garrison duty in order that they might reënforce our armies in the fighting line. The offer was accepted and Governor Stone issued a proclamation calling on the people of Iowa to furnish volunteers to serve one hundred days. In response to this call four regiments and a battalion were enlisted. The first to organize under the call was the

FORTY-FIFTH INFANTRY

consisting of nine hundred and twelve men who assembled at Keokuk and were mustered into the service on the 25th