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Company B, of the Fourth Iowa Infantry, was almost wholly raised in the city of Council Bluffs. It's officers were elected on the 3rd day of July, 1861. During it's honorable career of service in the field, it had, successively, for it's Captain's, Dr. Seth Craig, W. H. Kinsman and George E. Ford. When it's first term of enlistment expired, it was renewed as a veteran organization. The veteran's who thus re-enlisted, and who occupy a bright place in the roll of honor, were George E. Ford, George W. Lloyd, Christian Weirich, Henry Bradshaw, C. A. D. Clark, Lawrence Doran, Levi Jones, Henry C. Layton, James S. Lewis, John W. Nesbitt, Curtis O'Neill, George W. Tucker, Jonathan West and Isaac V. Maynard. Two of this company were killed in battle, twenty-one were wounded and four died in Andersonville Prison---ENNES, JONES, MAYNARD & REED. The regiment was finally discharged from service on the 24th of July, 1865, at Louisville, KY, after having been in thirty battles and engagements, after losing 119 men killed, 250 by disease, and 309 discharged on account of disability incurred in the line of duty. This regiment also had the honor of participating in Sherman's famous "March to the sea," and when the fighting was all over, and when Gen. Joseph E. Johnson's army had surrendered at Salisbury, N. C., it marched with the column across Virginia to Washington, and there took part in the grand review of the Army of the Potomac and of the Armies of the Cumberland, of the Tennessee and of the Ohio.
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