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Nineteenth Iowa Volunteers To MeetDec. 6 And 7.Cel. McFarland s Regiment. Th;» City Home Of r Company K. Were In ManySettle*.i*nfollowing interesting article about ttie reunion of the Nineteenth Volunteers of Iowa, to be held In thiscity, Dec 0and , was written by J.E Hough land of Eldon:“The reunion of the NineteenthIowa Volunteers will be held at Mt. Pleasant, December u and 7. Mount Pleasant always gives royal entertainment. It li the home of Go. K. and the last resting place of Its beloved Coionol, McFarland, who gave hislife on the battlefield of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, Dec. 7, 1862.“The battle of Prairie Grove. Ark., was one of the greatest battles of the war.“General F. J. Herron, commanding the 20thand 10th Iowa and 20th Wisconsin and 01th Illinois, was in camp at Wilson Creek battle grounds, ten miles southwest of Springfield, Mo.“On December 3, they received orders to prepare for forced march by 3 p. m. Then commenced the longest and most severe forced marches of the war. For 120 miles, over stony roads, crossing streams with only a few hours' rest, these great regiments ar* rived on the morning of December 7 (S nday), ten miies southwest of FayetteevlUe, Ark and met the skir mishers of the confederat e army.“Here our beloved Colonel McFarland addressed us forthe last time saying we would meet the enemy in a short time and to aim low and shoot often. Soon the battle was on. General Herron did not have over 5,000 men all told and his was the attacking army. General T. C Hindman(confederate had 25.000 men and was posted on the brow of a hill, behind an apple orchard He had several batteries and s* nt shot and shell into our ranks. Soon we were ordered to charge and the lth Iowa and 20;h Wisconsin led. forcing their way up against four regiments deep and cap tured a battery, but were compelled to retreat, losing 101 men of the huh and the 20th Wisconsin 208. Our batteries then 'double-shotted and tired with extra care to hold the rebels back. This jasted until 3 o’clock, when General Blunt arrived fromCane Hill and commenced to fire on their left.“Night closed one of the bloodiest battles of the war. In t tie morning all that was in sight of the rebelarmy was their dead strewn all overthe orchard. We buried 500 in onetrench and hundreds were carried away by their friends who lived in the neighborhood.“The Count of Paris in his history of the war said: ‘This was the mostaggressive army of the Doited States marching 12o miles in 3* das,meeting an advancing army 5 times its num hers on its own chosen ground, charging them up a hill and winning a viefctfl“ These are the boys of 1*61 and 1*65 that Mt. Pleasant will do her»eif proud to entertain.*’
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Mount Pleasant Daily News
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, US
Sat, Nov 17, 1906
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