Grenville Dodge: “They crawled in on their hands and knees, and swept the enemy from that front.”

The men, if properly officered, would make good soldiers, but with their present officers they are little better than an armed mob.

There is an element in this country that already has no use for the soldier of the Civil War.

Colonel Dodge, in order to discover the position of the enemy on his right, directed his firing to cease, when a thousand rebel plush caps and black broad brims popped up into view from the bushes, and, forming, they advanced with great…

He sent forward a company of skirmishers from the Fourth Iowa, who soon became sharply engaged with the enemy and the latter opened on us a perfect tornado of round shot, shell, and grape.