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Title	William Titus Rigby letters and documents, 1860s-1920s
Creator	Rigby, William Titus
Date Original	1860/1929
Description	William Titus Rigby served in the Civil War as a second lieutenant in the 24th Iowa Infantry, Company B. Later he attained the rank of captain. He was involved in the Coldwater Expedition and the Vicksburg campaign. After the war he attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, gaining his A.B. degree in 1869. He later became a banker at Mechanicsville. Rigby was deeply involved with veterans affairs. In 1895, he was elected secretary of the Vicksburg National Military Park Association. In 1899, he became the park's resident commissioner. He is buried at the Vicksburg National Cemetery.
Topical Subject (LCTGM)	Soldiers War Veterans
Topical Subject (LCSH)	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal Name Subject	Rigby, William Titus
Corporate Name Subject	Vicksburg National Military Park (Miss.) United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 24th (1862-1865). Company B
Geographic Subject	United States United States -- Mississippi -- Vicksburg
Type (DCMIType)	Text
Type (AAT)	Correspondence Poems Donor lists Lists (document genres)
Type (IMT)	jpeg
Digital Collection	Civil War Diaries and Letters
Contributing Institution	University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
Archival Collection	William Titus Rigby papers
Collection Identifier	MsC82
Collection Guide	http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?MSC0082
Rights Management	Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
Contact Information	Contact the Special Collections Dept. at The University of Iowa Libraries: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/contact/index.
Digitization Specifications	Scanned with Ricoh Aficio 2335 Scanner at 600 ppi, 24-bit color. Master image available in tiff format.
File Name	index.cpd
Identifier	31858055128593

Title	14 May-Page 01
File Name	31858055128593_14 May-Page 01.jpg
Full Text	Stanwood, May 14 Dear Nell; What distressing weather we are having; Has rained all afternoon & is raining steadily this evening. We are well up with our work so far, but the ground is getting heavy to handle. Have the corn on the home farm -35 acres- planted & began to day on the farm here. I have made one trade on pork since I wrote you last that made me $100. Contrary to my expectations I paid a com. on the may pork so that it made me $202

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