Iowas Forgotten General

Author : Kenneth Lyftogt
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297345
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iowa's Forgotten General written by Kenneth Lyftogt and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Mark Trumbull was a Londoner who immigrated at the age of twenty. Within ten years of his arrival in America, he had become a lawyer in Butler County, Iowa; two years later a member of the state legislature; and two years after that a captain in the Union Army. By the end of the Civil War, he was a brevet brigadier general, and in his later years he was an author and lecturer. Kenneth Lyftogt’s biography details the amazing life of this remarkable man, also shedding light on the histories of the Third Iowa Volunteer Infantry and the Ninth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry.

Author : Cyrenus Cole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331218982
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the People of Iowa (Classic Reprint) written by Cyrenus Cole and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A History of the People of Iowa Of course no apology is necessary for writing A History of the People of Iowa, and so none will be offered. The author believes his work is not a duplication of any other. Not too much, but too little has been written about Iowa. The people of this state have been neglectful of their own history. Even in their schools they have taught the history of every land except their own. On one occasion the author interrogated four college girls, senior class students in a university, and was surprised to find that not one of them had a distinct idea of who James W. Grimes was. They had heard of Samuel J. Kirkwood, largely through the fact that Mrs. Jane Kirkwood, the widow of the war governor, was still living in Iowa City. They knew much about the Sabine women, but very little about their own great-grandmothers who had crossed the Mississippi in 1833, and in the years following. They knew what Curtius did in the Roman Forum, but they were wholly ignorant about the Iowa hero who held a fort while General Sherman signalled "I am coming." And yet the lessons derived from human experience might have been garnered from Iowa history as well as from Roman. The neglect is not unusual. Men are apt to be indifferent to their own historic surroundings. Nor has the material of Iowa history been accessible to the many. Gue's and Brigham's excellent histories are too voluminous. They have become books of reference for students of men and events. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877457596
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Perfect Picture Of Hell written by Ted Genoways and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2001-05-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the shooting of an unarmed prisoner at Montgomery, Alabama, to a successful escape from Belle Isle, from the swelling floodwaters overtaking Cahaba Prison to the inferno that finally engulfed Andersonville, A Perfect Picture of Hell is a collection of harrowing narratives by soldiers from the 12th Iowa Infantry who survived imprisonment in the South during the Civil War. Editors Ted Genoways and Hugh Genoways have collected the soldiers' startling accounts from diaries, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, and remembrances. Arranged chronologically, the eyewitness descriptions of the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Jackson, and Tupelo, together with accompanying accounts of nearly every famous Confederate prison, create a shared vision

Author : ISAAC. GALLAND
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033484968
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book GALLAND'S IOWA EMIGRANT written by ISAAC. GALLAND and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel D. Pryce
Publisher : Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop
ISBN 13 : 9781929919147
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Footprints written by Samuel D. Pryce and published by Press of the Camp Pope Bookshop. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before published, Samuel Pryce's history of the "Johnson County Regiment" is a wide-ranging tale of the men he served with-- and whom he served so well as regimental adjutant. Pryce tells an unforgettable story, from the common soldier's ground-level perspective, of how a courageous band of midwesterners gathered, fought, lived and died under the "starry banner"--Page 4 of cover

Author : George Chandler
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528589376
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iowa and the Nation (Classic Reprint) written by George Chandler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Iowa and the Nation The statements of fact in some parts of the book are necessarily brief. To supplement the work in the study of Iowa government, constant reference should be made to the code, and also to the session laws of the general assembly. Many valuable public documents, for use in supplementary work, may be had, free of charge, by applying to the officers who have the care of the work upon which the information is desired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Donald C. Elder, III
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587290588
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Damned Iowa Greyhound written by Donald C. Elder, III and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Michael J. Forsyth
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786415540
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Camden Expedition of 1864 and the Opportunity Lost by the Confederacy to Change the Civil War written by Michael J. Forsyth and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederacy had a great opportunity to turn the Civil War in its favor in 1864, but squandered this chance when it failed to finish off a Union army cornered in Louisiana because of concerns about another Union army coming south from Arkansas. The Confederates were so confused that they could not agree on a course of action to contend with both threats, thus the Union offensive advancing from Arkansas saved the one in Louisiana and became known to history as the Camden Expedition. The Camden Expedition is intriguing because of the might-have-beens had the key players made different decisions. The author contends that if Frederick Steele, commander of the Federal VII Army Corps, had not received a direct order from General Ulysses S. Grant to move south, disaster would have befallen not only the Army of the Gulf in Louisiana but the entire Union cause, and possibly would have prevented Abraham Lincoln from winning reelection.

Author : S. H. M. Byers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331128826
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iowa in War Times (Classic Reprint) written by S. H. M. Byers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Iowa in War Times This book is not a book of biography - neither is it a book of incidents. The sincere effort has been made to prepare an enduring history of great events of Iowa during the war period. If there is any art in the book it has been the art of condensing. Men have been largely passed over - leav ing the story of their deeds to speak for them. No other plan for a single volume seemed possible - and a book beyond a single volume could not be issued at a price desirable for the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Iowa. Adjutant General's Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report of the Adjutant-General to the Governor of Iowa written by Iowa. Adjutant General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1861-1866 contain rosters of state troops and historical material.