I’ve been off Twitter due to its many issues. A change for Memorial Day, when people ask about favorite artifacts @IowaMuseum, the flag of the 1st Colored Regiment of Iowa is among the top. 1/10 @blackiowanews @IowaNatGuard #MemorialDay #GoldStar iowa.minisisinc.com//SCRIPTS/MWIMA…

These men were killed in action at Wallace’s Ferry, AR, 7/26/1864, James M. Bebanean, 18, Belleville, IL David Henshaw, 23, Galesburg, IL Henry Howard, 18, St. Paul, MN Also, Henry Harrison, 19, Ottumwa, died of wounds, 7/29/1865 White Officer Theodore Pratt, 24, Keokuk also KIA

I created a spreadsheet on the all the men of the regiment. docs.google.com/file/d/1O64wLN…

Here is a sheet of all the men from the regiment who died in service, docs.google.com/file/d/1AqkCHn…

I used records transcribed to IA Gen Web by Lynn McCleary of Muscatine County from the “Roster and Records of Iowa Soldiers, War of the Rebellion Historical Sketches of Volunteer Organizations, Vol. 5,” 1911 Her work is here, iagenweb.org/civilwar/books…

Adjutant General of IA Guy Logan stated of the regiment in 1911, “Its history, like that of several other Iowa military organizations in which men from other States enlisted, belongs as fully to the State as that of any of the regiments which were organized within her borders.”

“The records of the First Regiment of Iowa African Infantry constitute a portion of the military archives of the State, and it is therefore given its distinctive place in this work as the only regiment of the Negro race which the State of Iowa sent into the field.”

The men received their uniforms in October of 1863, clip from @journalonline of 10/15/1863, and headed to Jefferson Barracks in November, 2nd clip from Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal, 11/13/1863.

Note, it was Benton Barracks, not Jefferson Barracks.