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Subject: [IA-CIVIL-WAR] 1903 Bio of Charles L. Matthies
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 06:56:21 EDT

CHARLES L. MATTHIES was born in Bromberg, Prussia, on the 31st of May, 1824.
 When sixteen years of age he was sent to the University of Halle where he
received a thorough military education.  At the age of twenty he entered the
Prussian army and in 1847 served against the Poles in a revolution.  In 1849 he
emigrated to America and coming to Iowa located at Burlington where he became a
merchant.  When the Rebellion began he was the first man in Iowa and the
United States, to tender a military company to the National Government.  He was
captain of Company D, of the First Iowa Volunteers.  In July, 1861, he was
promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the Fifth Infantry and upon the death of Colonel
Worthington was promoted to the command of that regiment.  At the Battle of
Iuka his regiment was in the thickest of the fight and lost two hundred seventeen
men.  In April, 1863, Colonel Matthies was promoted to Brigadier-General for
his gallant services in several battles.


Debbie Clough Gerischer
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