While the author served in Company B, 3rd Iowa Infantry, this work offers a very detailed of life in the county prior to the war, as well as some great information about life on the Des Moines River for those people serving in companies identified along it's course. Navigation of the river, or lack thereof, was a major legal sticking point throughout the 1840s and 1850s, eventually ending in the Supreme Court.
History of Scott Township
Bob Welch
Dirty Shirts
Cornfed Comrades
The Eagle and The Journal
My blog, following one Illinois community from Lincoln's election through the end of the Civil War through the articles originally printed in its two newspapers.
A map of Scott Township
http://www.beforetime.net/iowageneal...5/scotttwp.gif
Maps of the township in the county
http://www.beforetime.net/iowageneal...875/index.html
Aka
Wm Green
Illegitimi non carborundum
(Don’t let the bastards grind you down!)
Dreaming of the following and other events
150th Here we come!
First on the list:
[B]Camp Jackson 29 April - 1 May 2011 Done had a blast!
1st Manassas Jul 21-24 2011 Company I Cherry Creek Rifles 2nd Mississippi, Im glad Im can stop sweating......
Wilson Creek Aug 12-13 2011 (Missed it)
Balls Bluff Oct 21-23, 2011, it was an event, with it ups and down, but glad I was there.
150th Shiloh, FEDERAL Paddle Wheeler, 15th Iowa, Mar. 30-Apr. 1, 2012 Co. C 15th IA (was a true honor)
Confederate living history on the Antietam battlefield 14-17 Sept
24th Illinois @ 150th Perryville, October 5-7, 2012
Battle of Unison 150th Anniversary, Unison, VA October 26-28th 2012 (couldnt go, gee thanks work)
Prairie Grove 30 Nov-2 Dec 2012
Marmaduke's Raid II (or Son of Marmaduke's) will be April 4-7, 2013
1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment (Provisional Army) Gettysburg.
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