Letters to his father, sister and brother in Albia, Monroe County, Iowa and journal excerpts concerning camp life and activities; containing references to General Sherman, the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Vicksburg.
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...
Kate Carr received her Bachelor of Arts (1999) from 1994-1999 Marlboro College in Vermont. She is completing her MFA in the sculpture area at the University of Iowa and has shown work recently at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in...
Kate Carr received her Bachelor of Arts (1999) from 1994-1999 Marlboro College in Vermont. She is completing her MFA in the sculpture area at the University of Iowa and has shown work recently at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in...
Betsy Zmuda-Swanson says about her work, 'I am captivated by the out-of-doors. I like the stillness and the quiet observing required to draw and paint landscapes. The scene changes constantly as the light and shadows quickly move, which intrigues...
This poem originally appeared in Volume 5, Number 6 of 100 Words, a journal published by The University of Iowa's International Writing Program between 1993 and 1998. Each piece in the journal had to be 100 words or fewer, and each issue had a...
Newspaper articles about the University of Iowa football seasons, 1936-1939, where Nile Kinnick excelled as a star player, which led to his Heisman trophy award.
Newspaper articles about Nile Kinnick's untimely death and the many tributes that followed, which included scholarships, awards, memorials and the renaming of the University of Iowa's stadium to Kinnick Stadium.
Ollier, Edmund, 1827-1886; Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859;
Concerning Hall's proposal in Art Journal that a subscription be set up to erect a monument on Hunt's grave; Ollier's willingness to contribute a guinea towards this cause.
Concerning an inn at Old Downs on the road from Bath; his visit to a cathedral in Wells; a brief stop in Glastonbury; King Arthur; Alfred the Great and the Danes; Taunton; Lucien Bonaparte.