A Few Links Just For Fun, Education & Piddling About

[Charles Heath]

Folks,

These are leftover from a listserver update. What the heck, most of them are worth posting here, too.

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Roster

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/24th-1.html

Movements

http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/24th.html

Fun with Uncle Beau's data:

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ia/count...th/24_indx.htm

Company F

http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/regimen...4th-roster.htm

Wiki-poo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24th_Io...antry_Regiment

Capt. Bradshaw's Bible For Sale

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/Vie...Item=117589121

1910 Outline

http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/sta...r/24iahist.txt

More Roster Data

http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/sta...r/24iarost.txt

Not much but nice

http://www.civilwarreference.com/reg...php?regID=2148

Company H Diary

http://www.battleofchampionhill.org/oxley.htm

Might be a nice box to explore

http://www.etsu.edu/cass/archives/Co...daid/a368.html

Colonel Wilds

http://books.google.com/books?id=g34...um=3&ct=result

More about Colonel Wilds

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...&start=30&sa=N

Champion Hill

http://www.battleofchampionhill.org/longley.htm

Titus Rigby, Co. B

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/M...sC82/MsC82.htm

Rigby at Emory

http://marbl.library.emory.edu/Findi...igby368_100352

Drilling with wooden rifles

http://books.google.com/books?id=FQW...um=7&ct=result

Page 2, Top Right Paragraph about the Guardhouse

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...&start=60&sa=N

Iowa at Vickburg

http://www.archive.org/stream/commis...0iowa_djvu.txt

Chaplain, Surgeon, Steward, more roster

http://www.us-data.org/ia/linn/milit...thinfantry.txt

Where is the 24th Iowa?

http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ilwar/cw22.htm

Fun in French

http://home.scarlet.be/gallez.nic/Iowa/Iowa.htm

Horrible Helena (The 24th had 49 cases of something…..)

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar...cId=5006501161

Good sketch history, hidden well down here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=-hT...-1&output=html

Chester Channell, Co D., in the VHS Cabell Collection - 3 letters

http://www.vahistorical.org/cwg/c.htm

History of the moniker “Temperance Regiment”

http://books.google.com/books?id=l4Q...um=5&ct=result

Arming The Hawkeyes

http://iagenweb.org/history/IJHP/IJHPIA2.htm

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Didn't even open up the USAMHI Bib, either. Well, this regiment has a bunch of obits and Genweb stuff out there in the form of at least another 1,200 links....

[Rob Murray]

Charles,

There you go, edumacating the public!

From one of the links.

Casebeer Jacob B.Line Company D Captain

I like this more than I liked Capt. Hightower at BGR.

[Hairy Nation Boys]

I plan on doing some more research(at the State Historical Society/Iowa City) December 20th. If any of you have any research questions please send them my way.

Holler

[Charles Heath]

Rob,

You knew I'd have to post the Taffy Pull documentation here.....

Let's add to the ever growing body of actual information for a hypeless event:

Little to Eat and Thin Mud to Drink
Private Julius Knapp's Diary

14 March (Page 99)

"Receive orders to march in the afternoon on the next day with two days rations in the haversacks."

15 March (Page 99)

"The first day we march 12 miles and bivouac for the night near a large plantation well Supplied with poultry and pork. and I will assure you the boys did not want for meat rations on the next days march."

16 March (Page 100)

"...the boys go out there and shoot some cattle and hogs supplying them with meat rations for the next day...."

20 March (Page 101)

"Some of the boys go out in the morning and get a plenty of poultry. Sugar and sweet potatoes to make them a number of good meals while we lay here...."

22 March (Page 101)

"...the boys discovereed about three hundred hogsheads of sugar secreted in this swamp so that the yankees could not destroy it, but it had not be discovered long beore the boys had the camp pretty well supplied with sugar and after our supper and a molasses pull we laid down for the night."

31 March (Page 103)

"The boys make a recon for poultry, and find them plenty and have a good supper and breakfast..."

3 April (Page 104)

"The boys get a good supply of poultry, sweet potatoes, ham, and sugar,...."

4 April (Page 104)

"...and [wagon train] returns with ten days rations...."