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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 7

BY  BLACK

A Resolution to commemorate the service and sacrifice of Iowans at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek.

   WHEREAS, for many Iowans their baptism under fire came at Wilson’s Creek, on a sultry August day in 1861, when the second major battle of the Civil War was fought; and
   WHEREAS, mustered for service in May, on August 10, 1861, the 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was part of Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon’s Army of the West; and
   WHEREAS, Lyon’s little army battled a large confederate force all of the morning, and then at last, with Lyon dead and their ammunition exhausted, the Army of the West withdrew; and
   WHEREAS, during the battle, Nicholas Bouquet, a young Iowa volunteer, left the line of battle and, exposing himself to the rebels, captured a horse between the lines and hitched the horse to a disabled gun, saving the gun from capture; and
   WHEREAS, for that act of initiative and bravery, Private Bouquet was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1897; NOW THEREFORE,

   BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That as we commemorate the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, the Senate honors the service and sacrifice of the thousands of Iowans who fought to save the United States and bring freedom to millions.