Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane," Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Concerning his improved health; the lack of word from his brother on an unnamed matter; a book of pictures and simple words that Mrs. Pitman sends to Thornton.
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...
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.
Tricia Louvar, a native Iowan, is a writer and photographer. Her fiction appears in the anthology Best of the Web 2009 (Dzanc Books), among other journals, publications, and newspapers.
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane," Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper. Scrapbook also includes awards presented to Birkby by Iowa Press Women, Inc....