View of Icarian Community, 1887

Pathways

• The Causes of the Civil War
• Iowa in the Civil War
• Iowa After the Civil War
• Grenville M. Dodge, An Iowa Hero
• Iowa Peacemakers: The Mennonites and Quakers Example
• Ralph Montgomery
• Iowa and the Underground Railroad

Media Artifacts

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  Civil War Begins
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  Civil War Battle in Iowa
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  Civil War Battle Re-enacted
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  Civil War Medal to Iowan
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  Civil War Prisoners, 1861-65
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  Civil War Women
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  Iowa Deaths in Civil War
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  Iowa's Civil War Heroes
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  Iowans Fighting in Civil War
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  Iowans Return from the Civil War
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  Alexander Clark Organizes African-Americans in Iowa to Fight in the Civil War

Web Sites

• Collection of diaries and related items from Iowans who who fought in the Civil War (1861-1865)
• First-hand accounts of the Civil War from biographies, letters and diaries of Iowa soldiers
• Essay describing how Cascade, Iowa sheltered a Confederate spy during the Civil War
• Article describes experiences of Fifth Iowa Cavalry during the Civil War
• Listing of the the many battles that the Fifth Iowa Infantry saw during the Civil War
• Article about William Watson, a mechanic and former slave who joined the Civil War effort
• Article about the experiences of Civil War veteran as he settled in Newton
• At a time when fear of removal from tribal homelands permeated Native American communities, many native people served in the military during the Civil War.
• 1863 issue of the Burlington Weekly Hawkeye, including news reports from Iowans supporting the Civil War effort
• Collection of wartime correspondence from the Civil War
• Article describing Iowa's military role in the Civil War
• The Military Secretary to Governor Kirkwood describes Iowa's role in the Civil War in this 1888 essay
• Collection of Civil War era diaries and letters written by Iowan soldiers and citizens
• Letters from an Iowan soldier during the Civil War
• Personal accounts of an Iowa Civil War surgeon
• Chapter from a 1927 publication describing life and work of Iowa medical staff during the Civil War