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Category : Grundy County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Category : Grundy County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Author: Brookhaven Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Category : Grundy County (Iowa)
Languages : en
Pages : 678

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Author: Iowa. Historical Department
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Cherilyn A Walley
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708322417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.

Author: Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Category : Iowa
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Iowa. State Dept. of History and Archives
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 90

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Author: Joseph C. Fitzharris
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806165618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Outstanding in appearance, discipline, and precision at drill, the Third Minnesota Volunteer Infantry was often mistaken for a regular army unit. Rebel Colonel Ponder described the regiment as “the hardest lot of men he’d ever run against.” Betrayed by its higher commanders, the Third Minnesota was surrendered to Nathan Bedford Forrest on July 13, 1862, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Through letters, personal accounts of the men, and other sources, author Joseph C. Fitzharris recounts how the Minnesotans, prisoners of war, broken in spirit and morale, went home and found redemption and renewed purpose fighting the Dakota Indians. They were then sent south to fight guerrillas along the Tennessee River. In the process, the regiment was forged anew as a superbly drilled and disciplined unit that participated in the siege of Vicksburg and in the Arkansas Expedition that took Little Rock. At Pine Bluff, Arkansas, sickness so reduced its numbers that the Third was twice unable to muster enough men to bury its own dead, but the men never wavered in battle. In both Tennessee and Arkansas, the Minnesotans actively supported the U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) and provided many officers for USCT units. The Hardest Lot of Men follows the Third through occupation to war’s end, when the returning men, deeming the citizens of St. Paul insufficiently appreciative, spurned a celebration in their honor. In this first full account of the regiment, Fitzharris brings to light the true story long obscured by the official histories illustrating aspects of a nineteenth-century soldier’s life—enlisted and commissioned alike—from recruitment and training to the rigors of active duty. The Hardest Lot of Men gives us an authentic picture of the Third Minnesota, at once both singular and representative of its historical moment.