Several other regiments were ordered to the same destination about the same time.

Ironton is on the Iron Mountain railroad, about seventy miles south of St.Louis, and situated among hills rising almost to the dignity of mountains.

When I reached there, about the 8th of August, Colonel B.Gratz Brown -- afterwards Governor of Missouri and in 1872 Vice-Presidential candidate -- was in command.

Some of his troops were ninety days' men and their time had expired some time before.

The men had no clothing but what they had volunteered in, and much of this was so worn that it would hardly stay on.