Program of Exercises Friday Afternoon, May 3rd, at 2 :45, Selection .......................................................................................Weber Academy Orchestra Invocation .............................................................W. O. Ridges Song, "The Flag Without a Stain"........................Miss Florence Browning Address of Welcome.................................................................................W. W. Henderson Third Iowa Veterans and Events of May 3rd........................Mrs. H. E. Cain Selection ..................................................... Orchestra Reading, "The Flag" .....................................................................Miss Josephine Wade Piano Solo, Patriotic Selections.........................................................Miss Jean Benzie Presentation of the Flag............................................................Colonel E. W. Tatlock Presentation of Pictures.....................................................................Comrade B. F. Bair Song America .............Congregation and Orchestra Benediction ........................................................................................................................E. Cowles March ............................................................................................................................................. Orchestra Memories of the Third Iowa Cavalry. By Mrs. H. E. Cain. Every state has its heroic age. Iowa, young as she is, has probably passed the high tide of her existence. Scarcely once in a thou- sand years do states or nations fight for a principle really vital to the human race. All states worth preserving have wars; yea, so long as men are human wars will rage somewhere in the world. But war for the upholding of freedom, for the unchaining of millions of human beings-such wars are the epochs of the gaes! All other wars of former times were petty encounters when com- pared with the war of the Rebellion. Many northern states won imperishable renown, but the state of Iowa by common consent stood first and foremost among them all. Of a population of less than 700,000, nearly 80,000 were in the field. Of her arms-bearing men. every other one stood in the ranks of the Union army. Two thousand one hundred and fifty-two of them were killed outright in battle: 10,216 died in hospitals from wounds and sickness; and more than 10,C00 were discharged for disability and bodies ruined by the service. It was an awful price for young Iowa to pay. When Fort Sumter was fired upon and the dissolution of our Union was driven upon our people, President Lincoln knew that moment, as the world knows now, that his conduct in the crisis and the conduct of those he might control would settle forever the question whether a Republican form of Government could live in spite of internal foes. But it required a million armed men to decide it. 1 Within four days of that fatal shot on Sumter, Governor Kirk wood of Iowa received from Secretary of War Camerson the following telegram: "Call made on you by tonight's mail for one regiment of militia for immediate service." Iowa readily responded to this call. Before this fearful war was ended seh had furnished nine cavalry regiments, forty infantry, and four batteries. One of these, the Third Iowa Cavalry, the one to which I wish to call especial attention today, more than 1,000 strong, was organized and equipped by Col. Cyrus Bussey at the request of General Fremont. This was to be one of the "crack" cavalry regiments of the service, and its history proved its men to be up to every expectation. Colonel Bussey was a cavalry officer of the first order; and his command was thoroughly drilled and disciplined at Benton barracks in the early winter of 1861. On December 12, Companies E, F, G, and II marched under Caldwell to Jefferson City; and more than two years passed away before they were again united with the other companies. They, as many other regiments during that struggle, endured many hardships. On March 7 and 8, 1862, they participated in a severe battle at Pea Ridge. In this battle the Third Iowa Cavalry lost more than eleven per cent of its enlistment; only one cavalry regiment in the Union army lost a greater per cent of killed in a single action. This was the Sixth Michigan, at Hawes Shop, Virginia, which lost twelve per cent. We find our Third Iowa at the battle of Helena. Then again, on June 10, we find them at the battle of Guntown here they were almost cut to piece. For 54 hours the men had been in the saddle without forage for their horses or food for themselves; but Col. John W Noble led the Third Iowa with a gallantry equaled only by the hard fighting of his command. Again, at Ripley, we find them; this time defeated, but bravely fighting to the end. In the battle of Tupelo they marched to victory. Suffice it to say that at Old Town, the day after Tupelo, the Third Cavalry, in a splendid charge under Colonel Noble won new laurels for itself and for the state. In the battle of the big Blue, the Third Iowa lost nearly twenty en; and in the pursuit that soon followed, almost ended the career of Price's flying army. The last battle of this campaign is known as the battle of Osage. Here James Dunlavy of Third Iowa Cavalry, single handed, captured rebel, Maj. Gen. Marmaduke. For this brave deed he received many tokens of honor from his fellow soldiers, while the citizens of Scott presented him with a case of ivory handled revolvers.