A soldier during the Civil War, Jacob Harrison Allspaugh describes his experiences in the 31st Ohio Infantry. He later lived in Rock Rapids, Iowa. Allspaugh includes a description of his experiences at the Battle of Perryville.
This diary belonged to an unknown soldier in Company C, 4th Infantry, California Volunteer Regiment, who was assigned to a detail guarding a wagon train carrying specie to the east.
Soldiers; Surgery; Physicians; War casualties; Military hospitals; Military camps; Battlefields; Campaigns & battles; Military officers; Homesickness; Education
Letters from Underwood to his wife, Sophie, and two from her to him, while he was an assistant surgeon of the 12th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.
Soldiers; Military life; Military training; Military cookery; Infantry; Battlefields; Campaigns & battles; Military camps; Troop movements; War
Bailey, of Epworth, Iowa, was mustered into the 3rd Iowa Infantry, Company A in June 1861. After spending a year with the company in Missouri, they moved south by boat and train in the Spring of 1862 and participated in the battle of Shiloh (which...