Cavalry; Military officers; Military camps; Soldiers; Guards; Guerrillas; Courts martial & courts of inquiry; Military deserters; Marching; Troop movements; Equipment & supplies; Spies; Executions; Prisoners of war; Refugees; Naval warfare
Holograph and printed copies of correspondence, orders, and invoices of the 1st Iowa Cavalry, mustered into service in Sept. 1861 under the command of Colonel Fitz Henry Warren, sent to Benton Barracks in Saint Louis and then on patrol in Missouri.
War; Soldiers; Campaigns & battles; Military camps; Military life; Military officers
Davis, of Liberty, Union County, Indiana, enlisted in Company I, 15th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers on May 14, 1861. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant September 10, 1861, and as a first lieutenant November 1862.