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Company E of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry, was recruited at this point. When enlistments were made, it was intended that W. G. Crawford should have the command of the company, but consumption was already making a rapid headway and threatening his life, and he reluctantly yielded the post to Capt. Daniel F. Eicher, of this city, one of the Lieutenancies being assigned to Joseph C. DeHaven, also of this city. The company mustered in, in January, 1863, and the disturbed condition of Indian affairs on the Northwestern frontier, and the massacres of settlers in Minnesota, making it necessary that they should be employed in that service, their term of enlistment was spent in arduous campaigns through the wilds and "Bad Lands" of Dakota and the Northwest.
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