A poem; "printed in an edition of one hundred copies, by the Institute Press, Wood, Wood & Wood, as a souvenir of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Lincoln Fellowship of Southern California, held at Los Angeles, California, February 13, 1943"--P. 6.
Sewell Van Alstine describes his experiences as a soldier in the 95th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Diary contains entries from September 1863 to October 1864. Van Alstine is also featured in the Iowa Authors Collection.
Clergy; Chaplains; War; Military life; Military medicine; Campaigns & battles; Hospital ships; Religion; Reunions; Reformatories
Corkhill was a Methodist minister, instrumental in the founding of Iowa Wesleyan College and the reformatories in Mitchellville and Eldora, Iowa. Governor Samuel Kirkwood commissioned this account of Corkhill's experiences as a chaplain for the...
The three Mann brothers of Fremont County, Iowa, were all soldiers in Company A of the 4th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry. Eldest brother, William enlisted on Oct. 2, 1861 at age 34. He was promoted to Veterinary Surgeon on Feb. 10, 1864 and was mustered...
Sheena Maree Smitley was born in Des Moines, Iowa. She is 20 years old and a sophomore at Simpson College. An English major, she plans to teach high school after graduating.
Steven Moore is a senior at Washington High School in Washington, Iowa, and will be attending the University of Iowa this fall to major in English while continuing to serve in the Iowa Army National Guard.
Zack Gauck is a southerner with no accent, from Cary, North Carolina. In high school he enrolled in Chinese for his foreign language and came to the conclusion that Chinese should be his major in college. He is 21 years old, still watches cartoons,...
Ann Struthers grew up on an Iowa farm but she has always been afflicted with wanderlust and that most pernicious disease, writing. Some strange genie has called her to the Middle East and to Sri Lanka, two of the world's hot spots. While on a...
Amy Leach lives in Chicago, where she teaches literature and plays the piano. A collection of her essays, Warbler Delight, was published by Pastoralia Press in 2007. "Stairs" and other work by Amy Leach can be found in the current (Spring 2008)...
This poem was selected for the 2009 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its seventh year, Poetry in Public displays poems by local writers of all ages in Iowa City buses, downtown kiosks, and select...