army regulations, and his superiors were thus able to procure his dismissal from the service. The Iowa people and soldiers, who know of Colonel Shaw’s valuable services, his fine record as one of the most competent and fearless officers that our State sent into the service, are proud of his career. His dismissal, through the influence of a political general, who never won a battle, is a fitting victory for the incompetent commander of the Red River fiasco, who marched against the enemy with his baggage train at the front. When the order of dismissal came to General A. J. Smith, in whose army Colonel Shaw had served with distinguished ability, that officer refused to have it promulgated and relieved him of his command in the following language:
Upon his retirement the officers of the division Colonel Shaw had commanded presented him with an elegant sword as a testimonial of their high regard.