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 forced to retreat, losing nearly two hundred men. Upon the recommendation of General Grant, Colonel Reid was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General soon after the battle. He served until the spring of 1864, when he resigned. He was for many years engaged in building the Des Moines Valley Railroad from Keokuk to Fort Dodge. ROBERT G. REINIGER is a native of Seneca County, Ohio, where he was born April 12, 1835. He was reared on his father's farm and attended district school. At the age of seventeen he began the study of law at Tiffin, at the same time taking a college course. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and the following year came west and located at Charles City in Floyd County, Iowa, where he formed a partnership with his brother in the practice of law. In 1861 Mr. Reiniger enlisted in Company B, Seventh Iowa Volunteers and became first lieutenant. He participated in the battles of Belmont, Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth, Iuka and was in the campaign against Atlanta. He was promoted to captain in 1862. He was appointed by Governor Merrjll in 1870 judge of the Twelfth Judicial Circuit and served by reëlections until 1884. In 1885 he was elected to the State Senate for the district composed of the counties of Floyd and Chickasaw, serving in the Twenty-first, Twenty-second and by reëlection in the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth General Assemblies where he was one of the most influential members. Mr. Reiniger was one of the few public officials who refused to compromise himself by the acceptance of railroad passes during his continuance in the public service. MILTON REMLEY was born in Lewisburg, West Virginia, October 12, 1844. His father came to Iowa with his family in 1855, making his home in Johnson County, where the son worked on his father's farm until he entered the State University, from which he graduated in 1867 with the degree of A.B. and in 1872 he received the degree of Master of Arts. He was admitted to the bar and removing to Anamosa entered upon the practice of law. In 1874 he returned to Iowa City which has since been his home. In 1888 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention, and in 1890 was a presidential elector for the State at large. In 1894 he was nominated by the Republican State Convention for Attorney-General and was elected and twice reëlected, serving six years. The Code of 1897 was adopted during his term, making many changes in the laws and his office was consequently one of great importance in passing upon new statutes. He conducted suits on behalf of the State of general public interest in cases of reclaimed lake beds, which were taken to the Supreme Court of the United States. The acts providing for an inheritance tax and the creation of the State Board of Control were passed during General Remley's term and he was frequently called upon to construe these