base of supplies. We suffered a total loss of sic men killed, and two officers and forty-one men wounded, several of whom have since died. I append a list of casualties.
During the absence of Major Jones and his command, that portion of the regiment which had been left at Memphis, consisting of eleven commissioned officers and three hundred and nine enlisted men, under the command of Colonel Nobel, took part in an expedition under General Grierson, passing over much of the ground over which the regiment had previously marched and fought, but not meeting any considerable force of the enemy, the main object of the expedition being the destruction of the railroad and rolling stock mad military stores and other property belonging to the rebel army. This was accomplished in a very effectual manner, and the scattered forces of the enemy, which endeavored to rally and oppose the advance of General Grierson's command, were easily overcome and dispersed. In his official report Colonel Noble gives an account of the vast amount of property destroyed, and
describes the various movements of his command on this expedition. The Casualties were: Private Nelson Pringle, Company K, wounded and captured January 1, 1865; Private James Barr, Company B, mortally wounded January 4, 1865, and one man missing name not reported. On the 5th of January, 1865, Colonel Noble entered Vicksburg with command and embarked on Steamer "E. H. Fairchild.". He concludes his report with the statement that his command arrived at Memphis on January 11,1865, where he received orders to proceed to Louisville, Ky., the portion of the regiment under command of Major Jones having already departed for that place. At Louisville the regiment was once more united and received a supply of Spencer carbines, a remount of fresh horses and the other equipment's necessary to put it again in perfect marching and fighting condition.

While these two portions of the regiment were engaged upon the expedition as heretofore described, the men and officers who had not re-enlisted and whose term of service had expired were mustered out of the service and returned to their homes in Iowa. The names of these soldiers will be found in the subjoined roster, with the dates of their honorable discharge by reason of expiration of term of service.
they had, in fact, become veterans, although not so officially designated. They had faithfully served the their term of three years, many of them were not in physical condition to be again mustered into the service, and all of them had earned the right to retire with honor and without being subjected to criticism by comparison with their comrades who remained have the official right to the title of
Veterans, and are so designated in the roster, the lack of that title should not be considered as a disparagement to those who did not re-enlist when their original term of three years had expired.

The reunited Veterans, under command of Colonel John W. Noble, remained in camp at Louisville while preparations were being made for the next and last great campaign in which they were to engage.
The regiment was assigned to the First Brigade of the Fourth Division of the Cavalry Corps, commanded by Brevet Major General James Wilson. The division was under the command of Brevet Major General Emory Upton, and the brigade-consisting of the Third and Fourth Iowa and Tenth Missouri Cavalry was under the command of Brevet Brigadier General Edward F. Winslow. The three
regiments numbered about two thousand four hundred men and officers. It was especially fitting that these regiments, which had so long been associated together, should be retained in the brigade and commanded by an officer under whom they had fought so often and in whom they implicit confidence.
It was evident that this last struggle was to be a desperate one. The cavalry forces of the enemy were under the command of Lieutenant General N. B. Forrest, of whose ability and courage no troops on the Union side had better knowledge than those composing Winslow's Brigade, which had so often fought the rebel forces under command of that intrepid Southern leader.
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