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Book Title: Annals Of Polk County, Iowa And City Of Des Moines

THIRTEENTH INFANTRY.

   The Thirteenth Infantry was organized in October, 1862, and its first colonel
was Marcellus M. Crocker, of Des Moines, who was promoted from lieutenant
colonel of the Second Infantry, and who started in as captain of the famous
Company D. He was in command of the regiment a comparatively short time before
he was made a brigadier general. In that time, however, he and the Thirteenth
were in two hard fought battles, Shiloh and Corinth. At Corinth he commanded the
noted Iowa brigade composed of the Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and
Sixteenth. He was a bold and able leader and as a division commander had few if
any superiors. A more extended notice of • this gallant officer appears
elsewhere. The Thirteenth had its baptism of blood at Shiloh, where it was under
fire for ten hours, sustaining a loss of twenty-four killed, one hundred and
thirty-nine wounded and nine missing. Becoming a part of the famous Iowa
brigade, its history is merged into the brilliant history of that fighting
brigade, and it participated in most of the noted battles, marches and campaigns
of the war. It was in the three unparalleled marches under General Sherman: from
Dalton to Atlanta, from Atlanta to Savannah, from Savannah to Goldsboro and
Washington. The total casualties of the regiment were 542 enlisted men and
forty-nine officers, or the largest in officers of any Iowa regiment except the
Second, Sixth and Seventh. The Thirteenth was mustered out at Louisville,
Kentucky, July 21, 1865.

COMPANY D.

   Watson, John H., May 1, 1861; transferred from Company D, Second infantry,
November 7, 1861; promoted quartermaster-sergeant February, 1862; promoted to
first lieutenant, Company F, September 12, 1862.

COMPANY E.*
   Baird, Stephen B., October 21. 
   Hoss, Jacob V., October 15.
   Lamb, James H., October 10.
   Lamb, John H., October 16.
    Penor, Wm. H., October 16.
   Stewart, John, October 29.

COMPANY F.*

   Watson, John h., second lieutenant, from quartermaster-sergeant; transferred
from Company D; wounded at Shiloh April 6, 1862; died at Pittsburg Landing April
9, 1862.

*Enlisted 1861, unless otherwise stated.


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ANNALS OF POLK COUNTY, IOWA,
AND
CITY OF DES MOINES
BY WILL PORTER.

"And this volume, dedicated to its people, sets forth in attractive style all
the facts and incidents that go to make up the history of which all citizens are
justly proud."
—Major Hoyt Sherman.

GEO. A. MILLLER PRINTING COMPANY,
PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS,
DES MOINES, IOWA,
1898.

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