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A Punishment on the Nation: An Iowa Soldier Endures the Civil War
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The preoccupations and sentiments of a common soldier caught in the most traumatic conflict in American history
Private Silas W. Haven, a native New Englander transplanted to Iowa, enlisted in 1862 to fight in a war that he believed was God’s punishment for the sin of slavery. Only through the war’s purifying bloodshed, thought Haven, could the nation be redeemed and the Union saved. Marching off to war with the 27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Haven left behind his wife Jane and their three ...
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