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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 forty-eight
infantry regiments, nine cavalry regiments, and four artillery batteries.
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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    "This regiment won immortal honors" - read about soldiers from southwest Iowa,
                   serving in the Fourth Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry,
                           during the Battle of Pea Ridge   (1 page, .pdf)
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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 States 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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