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Military related issues, on the War and Home Fronts –
1861 to 1880
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The
year 2020 marks the 160th year in the lineage of the 168th
Infantry Regiment;
Citizen-soldiers from Red Oak, Montgomery County, and Southwest Iowa.
Read
about their service to the country,
from the American Civil War to the present.
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“…personal sacrifice for the good of mankind, the
triumph of right
and the integrity of the
Nation.”
Read more
from History
of Montgomery County, Iowa, 1881 (1 p)
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Military
Enlistments during the American War Between the States,
from
Montgomery
County, Iowa.
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During
the American War between the
States, Iowa furnished 48 infantry regiments,
9
cavalry regiments, 4 artillery
batteries, for a total of 76,000 soldiers.
Iowa soldiers fought at Wilson’s
Creek, Monroe,
and Dug Springs,
Springfield, &
Blue
Mills, all in MO, Pea Ridge,
Little Rock, & Helena, all in AR, Fort Henry,
Fort Donelson, & Shiloh, all
in TN, Vicksburg, Port Gibson, Cornith, & Boonville,
all in MS, Cedar Creek and the
Shenandoah Valley campaign in VA, to list some.
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Of the 76,534 Iowans
who served in the War between the States,
13,169
did not live to return to their families.
Source: Sons of
Union Veterans of the Civil War, Department of Iowa
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Veterans
from
the American War between the States,
buried
in
Montgomery County, Iowa
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Struggle,
a
poem written by an American War
between the State Veteran
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Old Soldiers Monument, Red Oak, Iowa, USA
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A Dirge for McPherson
Killed in front of Atlanta
By Herman Melville, July 1864
Arms reversed and banners craped--
Muffled drums;
Snowy horses sable-draped--
McPherson comes.
But, tell us, shall we know him
more,
Lost-Mountain and lone Kenesaw?
Brave the sword upon the pall--
A gleam in gloom;
So a bright name lighteth all
McPherson's doom.
Bear him through the chapel-door--
Let priest in stole
Pace before the warrior
Who led. Bell--toll!
Lay him down within the nave,
The Lesson read--
Man is noble, man is brave,
But man's--a weed.
Take him up again and wend
Graveward, nor weep:
There's a trumpet that shall rend
This Soldier's sleep.
Pass the ropes the coffin round,
And let descend;
Prayer and volley--let it sound
McPherson's end.
True fame is his, for life is
o'er--
Sarpedon
of the mighty war.
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Depot
& WWII Memorial Museum
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