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  knap Leads the Regiment at Corinth—In the Vicksburg Campaign—Joins Sherman, Fights at Kenesaw Mountain—The Battle of Atlanta—Belknap Promoted to Brigadier-General—Participates in Many Battles.

The Sixteenth Iowa Volunteers—First Service at Shiloh—Placed in the “Iowa Brigade”—In the Battle of Iuka—Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders in Command—Fight at Corinth—Participates in the Vicksburg Campaign—In Sherman’s Battles Around Atlanta—Surrounded and Captured—In Andersonville Stockade—Exchanged in September and Rejoins Sherman’s Army

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Seventeenth Iowa Volunteers—Sent to Halleck's Army at Corinth—With Rosecrans at Iuka—The Battle of Corinth—Bravery of the Iowa Seventeenth—Brilliant Services in the Vicksburg Campaign—In Steele’s Expedition Against Little Rock—At the Battles Around Chattanooga—Defense of Tilton—Colonel Wever Commands a Brigade.

Eighteenth Iowa Volunteers—Sent to the Army of the Southwest—The Battle of Springfield—The Disastrous Expedition Under General Steele—Fighting to Save the Forage Train—Colonel Edwards Promoted

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XVIII Nineteenth Iowa Volunteers—Becomes a Part of the Army of the Frontier—The Battle of Prairie Grove—Colonel McFarland Killed Leading His Regiment in a Charge—One of the Great Victories of the West—At the Siege of Vicksburg—A Portion of the Regiment Captured at Stirling Farm—Reunited at New Orleans—Engaged in the Mobile Campaign.

Twentieth Volunteers—Sent to Southwest Missouri—Hard Marching and Great Suffering—The Regiment Joins Grant’s Army Before Vicksburg—Transferred to General Banks’s Command—Sent to Southern Texas—In the Mobile Campaign—In the Column that Stormed and Captured Blakely

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XIX Organization of the Twenty-first Iowa Volunteers—First Services in Missouri—The Battle of Hartsville