2nd Iowa Cavalry Regiment

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"With the 2nd Iowa Cavalry on Grierson's Raid"

With the 2nd Iowa Cavalry on Grierson’s Raid

Corporal Lyman Beecher Pierce served in Co. K of the 2 nd Iowa Volunteer Cavalry during the Civil War, rising in the ranks from a private...

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"Large albumen depicting important Iowa Civil War veterans General Edward Hatch, William P. Hepburn, Washington L. Elliot, Datus Coon, and possibly Charles Horton."

 

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The 2nd Iowa Cavalry played a major role in the 2nd Battle of Collierville, 3 Nov 1863. Some of their companies were armed with 5-shot Colt revolver rifles.

Quote from History of 2nd Iowa Cavalry

Chapter on Collierville

a few pages later. . .

At the Battle of Collierville, they were under command of Colonel Hatch.

"Gen George" was Colonel James Z. George, commander of the 5th Mississippi Cavalry---my ancestor's regiment. He was still called "General" because he had been Adjutant General of the Mississippi State Militia.

 

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Byron McClain letters, 1863-1864.
Letters to and from the McClain family.

Byron McClain letters, 1863-1864 | The University of Iowa Libraries

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Iowa Regiments

2nd Iowa Cavalry

• 2nd Iowa Cavalry - History
• 2nd Iowa Cavalry Roster - A-B
• Discharge Paper (slow loading) for Joseph W Hudson (aka Huston)

 

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Major Samuel Foster and the 2nd Iowa Cavalry, Company M.

 

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If you read Tim Smith's book, you will see that part of the success of Grierson's raid was the diversion created by the 2d Iowa Cavalry and the other regiment and the wounded when the split off from the main column and headed back towards LaGrange.