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A total of 27 rendezvous camps were utilized in Iowa during the Civil War, and for the most part, they were located along the Mississippi River. In addition to these two camps, "inland" camps were located in Iowa City, Des Moines, Ottumwa, and Oskaloosa. Camp Harlan/McKean was one of five camps in the state that were in operation during ...
Prelude to war. Iowa had become the 29th state in the Union on December 28, 1846. [2] Settlers had defeated the Sauk, Meskwaki, and Ho-Chunk during the 1832 Black Hawk War, resulting in lopsided treaties ceding land to the settlers. Future treaties forced out these and Dakota peoples and opened nearly all land to settlers. [3]
American Civil War prison camps. A Union Army soldier barely alive in Georgia on his release in 1865. Both Confederate and Union prisoners of war suffered great hardships during their captivity. Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers.
The 28th Iowa Infantry was organized at Iowa City, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on October 10, 1862. Iowa circuit court judge William E. Miller retired from the bench to become the colonel of the regiment at Camp Pope, near Iowa City. For two months they engaged in drilling of recruits, and in November of that year ...
The Civilian Conservation Corps-Prisoner of War Recreation Hall is a historic building located in Eldora, Iowa, United States. Known as Camp Flying Goose, the Civilian Conservation Corps ' (CCC) Company 1755 made Eldora their home base in 1933. [2] They constructed this building that year for their use as a barracks while they worked on ...
Camp McClellan is a former Union Army camp in the U.S. state of Iowa that was established in Davenport in August 1861 after the outbreak of the American Civil War. [1] The camp was the training grounds for recruits and a hospital for the wounded. In 1863 it became a prison camp called Camp Kearney for members of the Sioux, or Dakota, tribe that ...
List of Iowa Civil War units. (Redirected from List of Iowa Civil War Units) This is a list of American Civil War units from Iowa which fought in the Union Army. A total of 48 infantry regiments, nine cavalry regiments, and four artillery batteries were raised from Iowa. [1]
Service. The 4th Iowa Cavalry was organized at Camp Harlan in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, beginning in September 1861, and mustered in for three years service under the command of Colonel Asbury B. Porter. Companies A, E, and F mustered November 23; Companies B, C, D, I, K, and M mustered November 25; Company G mustered November 27; Company L ...