Grenville Dodge: “They evidently have no desire to learn about these things, but want some excuse for attacking our Army, hoping thereby…”

Colonel Dodge having discovered the enemy in the timber to the right, opened the First Iowa Battery on them, causing considerable execution; two rebels on horseback were seen to fall, and the rest fled.

General McPherson fell in battle, booted and spurred, as the gallant and heroic gentleman should wish.

After your expedition started I received documentary proof from Captains Sturgis, Schofield, and Totten, and a number of other officers, in regard to his conduct on those occasions, which destroyed all confidence in him.

It was thought, and was also stated in the papers, that I could not live, and I told General Halleck afterwards that they expected to have the credit of making a Brigadier-General and at the same time to have a vacancy, too, but that on…