No Such Country: Essays toward Home

by Elmar Lueth

Overview

 Matthew Mark Trumbull was a Londoner who immigrated at the age of twenty. Within ten years of his arrival in America, he had become a lawyer in Butler County, Iowa; two years later a member of the state legislature; and two years after that a captain in the Union Army. By the end of the Civil War, he was a brevet brigadier general, and in his later years he was an author and lecturer. Kenneth Lyftogt’s biography details the amazing life of this remarkable man, also shedding light on the histories of the Third Iowa Volunteer Infantry and the Ninth Iowa Volunteer Cavalry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587294136
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	02/05/2002
Series:	Sightline Books , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	197
File size:	449 KB

About the Author

 Kenneth Lyftogt is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa. He has walked all the major battlefields of the Civil War and participated in reenactments. He is editor of Left for Dixie and the author of From Blue Mills to Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War (Iowa, 1993) and the novel Road Freaks of Trans-Amerika.

Table of Contents

Table of contents:  Acknowledgments
Introduction
Foreword
1. The Chartist 2. My Light Is None the Less for Lighting My Neighbor 3. Iowa 4. The Butler County Unioin Guards 5. The Matter of Rank 6. The Shelbina 7. The Battle of Blue Mills Landing 8. The Battle of Pittsburg Landing (Shiloh) 9. The Hero of the Hatchie 10. Tattoo 11. The Ninth Iowa Calvary Epilogue: Wheelbarrow
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Adam Hochschild

I enjoyed joining Elmar Lueth on this quietely graceful intellectual journey, in which he first discovers our country and language and then rediscovers his own.
— Adam Hochschild, author of Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son