Pioneer History of Davis County, Iowa
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Davis County (Iowa)
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 39,80 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Davis County (Iowa)
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Author : Donald C. Elder, III
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 25,86 MB
Release : 1998-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1587290588
William Henry Harrison Clayton was one of nearly 75,000 soldiers from Iowa to join the Union ranks during the Civil War. Possessing a high school education and superior penmanship, Clayton served as a company clerk in the 19th Infantry, witnessing battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater. His diary and his correspondence with his family in Van Buren County form a unique narrative of the day-to-day soldier life as well as an eyewitness account of critical battles and a prisoner-of-war camp. Clayton participated in the siege of Vicksburg and took part in operations against Mobile, but his writings are unique for the descriptions he gives of lesser-known but pivotal battles of the Civil War in the West. Fighting in the Battle of Prairie Grove, the 19th Infantry sustained the highest casualties of any federal regiment on the field. Clayton survived that battle with only minor injuries, but he was later captured at the Battle of Stirling's Plantation and served a period of ten months in captivity at Camp Ford, Texas. Clayton's writing reveals the complicated sympathies and prejudices prevalent among Union soldiers and civilians of that period in the country's history. He observes with great sadness the brutal effects of war on the South, sympathizing with the plight of refugees and lamenting the destruction of property. He excoriates draft evaders and Copperheads back home, conveying the intra-sectional acrimony wrought by civil war. Finally, his racist views toward blacks demonstrate a common but ironic attitude among Union soldiers whose efforts helped lead to the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Author : Robert Elliott Flickinger
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Iowa
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Page : 772 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Davis County (Iowa)
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Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Wisconsin
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After 1855 the society's annual reports were included in its Proceedings.
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Page : 748 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Iowa
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Iowa
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Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 30,61 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Iowa
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 13,1 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
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A thorough bibliography with some annotations when the title does not describe the material. Arrangement is in 25 alphabetically sequenced subject categories. Four classes of material are excluded: genealogies, newspaper articles, manuscripts, audio-visual materials. Indexed by personal name and sub
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Page : 728 pages
File Size : 38,56 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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