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Category : Jefferson County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa. Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All ... Governors of the State
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Category : Jefferson County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa
Author: Lake City Publishing CompanyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332397696
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Excerpt from Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa: Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together With Portraits and Biographies of All the Presidents of the United States and Governors of the State After having been five years in the military service, and vainly sought promotion in the royal army, he took advantage of the fall of Fort Duquesne and the expulsion of the French from the valley of the Ohio, to resign his commission. Soon after he entered the Legislature, where, although not a leader, he took an active and important part. January I7, 1759, he married Mrs. Martha (dandridge) Custis, the wealthy widow of John Parke Custis. 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.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa
Author: Lake City Publishing CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Jefferson County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa
Author: Lake City Publishing CompanyPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333543457
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Excerpt from Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa: Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County Coming generations will appreciate this volume and preserve it as a sacred treasure, from the fact that it contains so much that would never find its way into public records, and which would otherwise be inaccessible. Great care has been taken in the compilation of the work and every opportunity possible given to those represented to insure correctness in what has been written, and the publishers atter them selves that they give to their readers a work with few errors of consequence. In addition to the biograph ical sketches, portraits of a number of representative citizens are given. 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."
Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa. Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All ... Governors O
Author: Lake City Publishing CompanyPublisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783337098803
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa. Containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all ... governors o is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County, Iowa, Containing Full Page Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens of the County, Together with Portraits and Biographies of All the Governors of Iowa, and of the Presidents of the United States
Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Otoe and Cass Counties, Nebraska
Author: Portrait and Biographical Album of Wapello County, Iowa
Author: A Damned Iowa Greyhound
Author: Donald C. Elder, IIIPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587290588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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.
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