CHAPTER XXII PATRIOTIC DAVENPORT MILITARY HEADQUARTERS - CAMPS WHERE SOLDIERS WERE TRAINED - MINNESOTA SIOUX - MANY CONFERDERATE PRISONERS AT ROCK ISLAND PRISON - THE ROUTINE OF PRISON LIFE - THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT - ORATION OF GENERAL J. B. LEAKE - IOWA SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME - FIRST EXERCISES AT OAKDALE - COMPANY B GOES TO FIGHT SPAIN - THE ROLL OF HONOR - COMPANY ROSTER IN DAYS OF SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. (Pictures included with this chapter are:  Rebel Prison On Rock Island, In 1864 - Company B Starting For the Spanish-American War - The Armory, Davenport. At the outbreak of hostilities between the north and south the telegraph lines terminated at Davenport.  To be in close touch with affairs at Washington and to secure ready communication concerning military affairs Governor Kirkwood established his headquarters at Davenport, and before the close of the war there were located here various military organizations of the state and of the Union army.  Among the state officers stationed here at one period of the war were N. B. Baker, adjutant general, and M. M. Trumbull, assistant adjutant general, with offices in the Griggs block, between Second and Third streets; also of the United States army Brigadier General B. S. Roberts, commanding the district of Iowa, whose headquarters were in the Metropolitan block, southeast corner of Second and Brady.  On his staff were Captains J. M. Bell and T. P. Hunt, Lieutenant S. Prentiss, B. H. Roberts and Richard Skinner, Lieutenant Colonel William M. Grier, mustering and dispatching officer, had his headquarters in the Griggs block.  The provost marshal for hte second district of Iowa, General Philo E. Hall, had his headquarters in the Metropolitan block, and in the same building was stationed Major Thomas Duncan, Third United States cavalry, acting assistant provost marshal for Iowa.  Captain Charles Bennett was superintendent of barracks on the island and Major C. P. Kingsbury was superintendent of the arsenal buildings on the island. Debbie Clough G-erischer G-erischer Family Web Site http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/ Assistant CC, Iowa Gen Web, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ List Manager for: IASCOTT-L * G-erischer-L * D-encker-L Fitzpatirck-L * V-lerebome-L * Huntington-L * Otis-L * Algar-L EIGS-L * Pickens-L * McNab-L * Patris-L - Rankin-L