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.
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...
Diary details the 1864 wartime experiences of Lot Abraham, farmer and future Iowa state senator, who served in the 4th Iowa Cavalry during the Civil War.
In addition to his own poetry, for the past few years Dan Troxell has been hosting published, award-winning poets at his Readings-at-Zanzibar's series in Des Moines, Iowa.