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On the 1st of Jan the 3d Iowa Cavalry reenlisted as veteran volunteers. Over Six hundred men, being nearly all the men present able for duty. Being the first Regiment in Division to reenlist they were relieved from duty and ordered with their officers to Iowa to enjoy the 30 days furlough. Col. Bussey accompanied his Regiment and while the men were enjoying a reunion with their friends and receiving the plandits of a grateful people for their heroism and endurance and the devotion to their country displayed by reenlisting for another three years was busy procuring new arms and equipments and superintending the recruiting his Regiment. In all of these measures he was successful. Eight hundred men were enlisted an mustered into Service, filling the Regiment beyond the maximum, new carbines of improved patern, and complete new Horse equipments were obtained from the Arsenals at New York and Washington and the Regiment ordered to St. Louis Mo to be mounted. On the 5th of January 1864, “For Special Gallentry” on reports and recommendations of Commanding Generals, Col. Cyrus Bussey was appointed a Brigadier General. For some weeks after reaching St. Louis in the month of March He as assigned to special duty in the Cavalry Bureau, where he remained until the 1st of May, when he was ordered to Little Rock Ark to report to Maj Gen Steele. Lieut. Col. H. C. Caldwell was promoted to Col.onel of the 3d Iowa Cavalry and Major John W. Noble to Lieut. Col.onel. Captain Gilman C. Mudgett and Capt A. H. McCrary to Majors. It was Col. Busseys misfortune to have his Regiment severed and detached from the time of its first entering the Field until a short time before his promotion, but he now had the satisfaction of turning over the the [sic] 3d Iowa Cavalry to its new Col.onel, over fourteen hundred Strong, Magnificently Armed, Mounted, and equipped and on the first of may the Regiment left St. Louis for Memphis Tenn, where they were ordred to report to Maj Gen Washburn for duty. The 3d Iowa Cavalry was the best disciplined Regiment in the South West, from the time the Regiment left Benton Barracks in Feb 1862[?] to Jan 1st 1864, but two men were tried by Court Martial and but very few were ever reprimanded by their cuperior[sic] officers. A Regimental guard house was an institution unknown in the