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...
Military camps; Military life; Marriage; Patriotism; Soldiers; Spouses; Railroad trains; Railroad bridges; Sabotage; Pregnancy
John "Jay" Treat and his wife "Lib" were stationed in Hannibal, Mo. where Jay was serving in the Union Army. Their letter is addressed to their cousins Tilly, Bell, and Mag Wise.
Soldiers; War casualties; Sick persons; Military camps; Military hospitals; Prisoners of war; Military officers; Guards; Courtship; Campaigns & battles; Writing; Reading; Christianity; Slaves; Freedmen; Orphanages; Mental institutions; Teachers;...
Diaries of siblings O.C., Mary, and R. Amanda Shelton from the 1860s and a speech written by R. Amanda Shelton in 1911 about her experiences during the Civil War. O.C. Shelton served as an officer in the Iowa Infantry 45th Regiment and died of...
Families; Physicians; Military medicine; Military hospitals; Sick persons; Soldiers; War casualties; Medicines; Amputation; Typhus fever; Harvesting; Food supply; Debt; Swine; Wages; War ships; Death
Correspondence between Dr. Asa Bean and his family while he served as a surgeon in the Union Army in Maryland, Louisiana, and Tennessee. Dr. Bean died of disease on a hospital ship April 26, 1863 as his wife, Mary Bean, was traveling to Memphis to...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.