Excerpt from History of the Seventh Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry During the Civil WarOf the fifty regiments of brave and loyal troops that went out from Iowa to battle for the right in the Civil War, none had a more brilliant career or shed a brighter light upon the State or Nation, than the Seventh Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry.From the time of its first engagement, General Grants first battle of the War of the Rebellion Belmont, Mo., November the 7th 1861, to the Grand Review at Washington at the close of the war, its name and fame was ever prominently before the country. N o regiment was more a pride among the lovers and defenders of the Union - none more emphatically a terror to its foes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works._,