. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . as appointedmajor of the Second Iowa Infantry in May, 1861. Hisregiment was soon despatched to the field, and partici-pated in the campaigns of 1861 in Missouri. MajorCrockers eminent services caused him to be promotedto the colonelcy of the regiment December 30, 1861. The regiment was then transferred to Kentucky, andtook part in the campaigns which followed, and in thebattle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, Colonel Crocker foughtwith great distinction. He was promoted brigadier-gen-eral of volunteers November 29, [862, and
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. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . as appointedmajor of the Second Iowa Infantry in May, 1861. Hisregiment was soon despatched to the field, and partici-pated in the campaigns of 1861 in Missouri. MajorCrockers eminent services caused him to be promotedto the colonelcy of the regiment December 30, 1861. The regiment was then transferred to Kentucky, andtook part in the campaigns which followed, and in thebattle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862, Colonel Crocker foughtwith great distinction. He was promoted brigadier-gen-eral of volunteers November 29, [862, and commandedthe brigade of Iowa troops which was known through-out the war as Crockers brigade. With this he partici-pated in the siege and capture of Vicksburg, andsuccessfully conducted a raid into Mississippi. After the re-enlistment of his brigade as veteran vol-unteers, General Crocker commanded and fought itthrough the Georgia campaign under Sherman, and com-manded a division during part of the time. The brigadehad been brought to a high state of discipline, and was. nicknamed Crockers Greyhounds. While participating in the Atlanta campaign it was fiercely engaged, and lostheavily in the assault of Bald Hill, before Atlanta, July22, 1864. In Hardies attack on that position, later in theday, fully half were killed, wounded, or captured. General Crocker was a natural-born soldier, and histwo years of study and discipline at West Point onlyserved to aid the military genius he possessed. But hewas never a thoroughly well man. lie suffered fromconsumption during the whole of his military career, andhis health failing towards the closing days of the war, hewas forced, on account of sickness, to leave the immediatetheatre of war and was assigned to duty in New Mi ;6S OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (volunteer)