Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Lyon Campaign in Missouri: Being a History of the First Iowa Infantry and of the Causes Which Led Up to Its Organization and How It Earned the Thanks of Congress Which It Got
In the first iowa infantry the writer Of this book was a private soldier. He desires to give a history of the Regiment, and feels that he cannot do so in a proper way without drawing a brief picture of the conditions that preceded the great con?ict, so that the reader may understand what was done and why it was done. The story of the great war is not understandable unless one knows the condi tions of society at the time, the feelings of the people, and the facts which preceded the first enlistments.
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