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Creek and defeated him On the 1st of May The 3d Iowa Cavalry under command of Capt J. Q. A. DeHuff engaged the enemy at Lagrange Ark. See official Report of Capt. J. Q. A. DeHuff, 3d Iowa Cavalry in Adjt Genl of Iowa Report for 1864. See also list of killed and wounded in same Report. On the 6th of May Col. Clayton of Col. Busseys command was sent to find the enemy with one thousand cavalry. Maj Noble with 3d Iowa Cavalry accompanied the expedition. Marmaduke Division was encountered between Cotton Plant and Madison and badly defeated, the enemy losing a large number in killed and wounded. On the 25th of May a detachment of the 3d Iowa Cavalry under command of Lieut. S. J. McKee encountered the enemy at Polk's Plantation, near Helena. see official report of Lieut. McKee in Agjt Gen of Iowa Report for 1864. Vicksburgh was now the theatre of Gen Grants operations and attracted the attention of the country. Col. Bussey had made repeated application to be relieved of command of the Cavalry at Helena and sent with his regiment to Vicksburgh where he could find a more active field. After repeated refusals, Maj Gen Prentiss commanding the District of Eastern Arkansas consented as a personal favor to gratify Col. Busseys request and on the 4th of June he was ordered with his Regiment to report to Gen Grant at Vicksburgh where he arrived on the 8th and was ordered to report to Maj Gen Sherman and was at once assigned to duty as “Chief of Cavalry”. The 3d Iowa Cavalry disembarked at Hains[?] Bluffs and established temporary camp at Snyders Bluffs. The enemy under Joe Johnson were concentrating an army on the line of the “Big Black” for the purpose of attacking Gen Grant Army in the rear. The enemies Cavalry Division under command of Gen Jackson were encamped at Vernon and made freqent demonstrations on our lines. Col. Busseys Head Quarters during the month of June were in the saddle, he having been specially charged to look after the enemy on “Big Black”.