From Blue Mills to Columbia: Cedar Falls and the Civil War

by Robert K. Martin

Overview

Historian Kenneth Lyftogt introduces us to the volunteer soldiers of the Pioneer Grays and Cedar Falls Reserves infantry companies and in turn examines Iowa’s role in the Civil War. Many of these soldiers served the Union for the duration of the war, from the early fighting in Missouri to Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Sherman’s destructive marches through Georgia and the Carolinas. Their letters home are Lyftogt’s primary sources, as are editorials and articles published in the Cedar Falls Gazette.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587291401
Publisher:	University of Iowa Press
Publication date:	05/01/1992
Series:	Iowa Whitman Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	282
File size:	885 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
1. A Town on the Cedar 2. The Pioneer Greys 3. Missouri 4. Home in Cedar Falls 5. Shiloh 6. The Cedar Falls Reserves 7. Vicksburg 8. A Third Summer 9. Chattanooga 10. Atlanta 11. Marching through Georgia 12. Triumph and Tragedy Epilogue
Notes
References
Index