This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Krimanek, Dodge Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4370.1.1 Message Board Post: IOWA STATE REGISTER. August 7, 1861. Page 3 Column 3.--"From South Western Iowa".--Col. Dodge, with about 200 men of the 4th Iowa Regiment, and two cannon arrived in Town last Saturday morning enroute for the east to repel invasion on the border of Taylor County. Some of the Companies from Page county had returned to this place when he arrived, and hence they camped half a mile east of town on the Nodaway, and Col. Dodge sent out scouts to scour the Border Territory. They remained in camp until Tuesday morning, when he became satisfied that their immediate presence was not demanded here, and they started up on their return to the Bluffs, about sunrise. Col. Dodge's force consisted of 25 men from each company of the 4th Iowa Regiment, and Capt. Clinton's Battery of Flying Artillery--two six pounders. Their camp made quite an attractive place for our citizens--who visited it by the hundreds; and especially during the evenings, at dress parade. In all the exercises of the Battalion, the Col. took command in person, showing that he had no disposition to shuffle the work upon the inferior officers. They had good tents, and with fine weather and good camping ground, they all seemed to enjoy themselves exceedingly well; most of them preferring this to their camp at Council Bluffs.--Page County Herald. N.B.: "East of town on the Nodaway"? Hans Krimanek/Kriwanik (?) told me that the German prisoner of war camp during the second World War at Clarinda was located east of Clarinda on the river! (Hans was a talented artist who, during his stay at the Clarinda POW camp, had obtained passes from camp so that he might paint some of the countryside thereabout.. After the war, he came back to Shenandoah and opened an art studio, and also attended classes at the University of Iowa--where I met him......I wonder if any of his paintings still exist in Page County?) In Col. Dodge's report of this maneuver, he said he had obtained wagons for some of his men, both at Sidney and then on his return, at Manti, or Fisher Grove. -- Who furnished these wagons....were the owners compensated for the use of the wagons....I have never heard anything about this. Does anyone have information?--W.F.