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The members of the 13th Iowa and the brigade have never claimed that they captured Columbia, but only that while the army was preparing to cross over the river on pontoons and in the usual and regular way take the city, these impetuous soldiers, without formal orders from army headquarters, but under
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The 13th Iowa mustered 1788 men at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 5 officers and 114 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 205 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 328 fatalities.
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Col. Kennedy was undoubtedly the first man to suggest the possibility of crossing the stream and entering the city. He could have made the suggestion to no soldier more daring and enterprising than his brigade commander,
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orders from the orders and approval of their brigade commander, made a movement of their own, full of risk and daring, and gained the city first and planted their colors on both the old and new capital buildings."
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After the battle of Shiloh, the Thirteenth Iowa was assigned to the Third Brigade of the Sixth Division. The brigade was composed of the
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History of Company "A" Thirteenth Iowa Veteran Infantry from September 12th, 1861, to July 21st, 1865.
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History of Company "A" Thirteenth Iowa Veteran Infantry from September 12, 1861, to July 21, 1865.
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Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E.,
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The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry.
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Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
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Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
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regiments of Iowa Infantry, and was under command of
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
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United States
Union
Infantry
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Raymond
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Ezra Church
Battle of Jonesboro
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville
infantry
regiment
Union Army
American Civil War
Davenport, Iowa
Eleventh
Fifteenth
Sixteenth
Colonel Crocker

Capture of Columbia

General Sherman

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