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The Lyon Campaign in Missouri : Being a History of the First Iowa Infantry
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Eugene Fitch Ware (1841-1911) was a soldier, journalist, politician, historian, lawyer, poet, and served as Commissioner of Pensions in the Theodore Roosevelt administration.
Born in Connecticut in 1841, Ware's family moved in 1844 to Burlington, Iowa, where Eugene was educated in public schools and apprenticed in his father’s harness-making trade.
After the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, he enlisted in Company E, First Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he re-enlisted in Company L, Fourth Iowa Cavalry & was mustered out as captain, Company F, Seventh Iowa Volunteer Cavalry in June 1866.
In his book, "The Lyon Campaign In Missouri In 1861, Being A History Of The First Iowa Infantry," Ware gives the history of the First Iowa Infantry, a three month regiment raised at the call of President Lincoln to put down the rebellion. Missouri a border slave state, which controlled important points on the Mississippi River like St Louis with its large arsenal, was divided in its sympathy between North & South.
Quick action by General Nathaniel Lyon kept its pro-South government from seizing Missouri's important cities, but the new Confederate States government then sent troops under Generals McCullough & Price to assist pro-slavery local Missouri forces. General Lyon mounted the campaign described in Ware's book, which culminated with the battle at Wilson Creek to try & stop the Confederates.
General Lyon was killed in the battle & the Confederate forces held the field, but were so weakened & disorganized that they were unable to follow up the victory. This allowed Union forces to keep most of this important border state under their military control for the entire Civil War.
We have added an Interactive Table of Contents & an Interactive List of Illustrations. This means that the reader can click on the BLUE AND/OR underlined links in the Table of Contents or the List of Illustrations & be instantly transported to that Chapter or Illustration.
To make reading easier, especially on smaller mobile devices, we have added the following reading aids: an indent to the first line of each paragraph, a page break after after each chapter, each Illustration & any page(s) with a footnote(s).
Our aim is to provide the reader AND the collector with long out-of-print classic books (OOP) at realistic prices. If you load your mobile device(s) with our books, not only will you have fingertip access to a large library of Antiquarian and Out-Of-Print material at reasonable prices, but you can mark them up electronically & always have them for immediate reference, without worrying about damage or loss to expensive bound copies.
We have inexpensively published other interesting non-fiction classics on history, science, reference, etc in. E-book format, including "An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre." With Table of Contents And List of Illustrations that are Interactive) (ASIN: B0081XAX6O), "On The Border With Crook" (With Table of Contents And List of Illustrations that are Interactive) (ASIN: B007VQB0GE) both by this same author, & Civil War titles, such as Abraham Palmer's The History Of The Forty-eighth Regiment New York State Volunteers, In The War For The Union: 1861-1865 (With Table of Contents And List of Illustrations that are Interactive) (ASIN: B0086I5VEI).
We will be adding to our titles regularly, look for our offerings on Amazon.
Eugene Fitch Ware (1841-1911) was a soldier, journalist, politician, historian, lawyer, poet, and served as Commissioner of Pensions in the Theodore Roosevelt administration.
Born in Connecticut in 1841, Ware's family moved in 1844 to Burlington, Iowa, where Eugene was educated in public schools and apprenticed in his father’s harness-making trade.
After the firing on Fort Sumter in April 1861, he enlisted in Company E, First Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Subsequently he re-enlisted in Company L, Fourth Iowa Cavalry & was mustered out as captain, Company F, Seventh Iowa Volunteer Cavalry in June 1866.
In his book, "The Lyon Campaign In Missouri In 1861, Being A History Of The First Iowa Infantry," Ware gives the history of the First Iowa Infantry, a three month regiment raised at the call of President Lincoln to put down the rebellion. Missouri a border slave state, which controlled important points on the Mississippi River like St Louis with its large arsenal, was divided in its sympathy between North & South.
Quick action by General Nathaniel Lyon kept its pro-South government from seizing Missouri's important cities, but the new Confederate States government then sent troops under Generals McCullough & Price to assist pro-slavery local Missouri forces. General Lyon mounted the campaign described in Ware's book, which culminated with the battle at Wilson Creek to try & stop the Confederates.
General Lyon was killed in the battle & the Confederate forces held the field, but were so weakened & disorganized that they were unable to follow up the victory. This allowed Union forces to keep most of this important border state under their military control for the entire Civil War.
383 pages, Hardcover
First published November 22, 1907
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Eugene Fitch Ware
43 books2 followersEugene Fitch Ware was a soldier, journalist, politician, historian, lawyer, poet, and served as Commissioner of Pensions under the Theodore Roosevelt administration. Describing him, Roosevelt said he refused “to be swayed by any motive save the public good,” and, under the non de plume Ironquill, he remains one of Kansas’ well-known poets.
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October 30, 2020A casual and natural account of the events, with color and flair
I started reading this book to get more of an idea of what life was like in the 1800's. I was not disappointed, as what followed was entertaining and required almost no additional context from what was in this book to follow along. Very easy to pick up and get started, vivid imagery, and engaging prose.
I started reading this book to get more of an idea of what life was like in the 1800's. I was not disappointed, as what followed was entertaining and required almost no additional context from what was in this book to follow along. Very easy to pick up and get started, vivid imagery, and engaging prose.
September 24, 2011
An excellent first-person account by a "90 day volunteer". He covers the years leading up to the war and includes lots of interesting anecdotes about life in Iowa back then. There's not much fighting in this book, but you get a good look at the daily misery of the soldiers with their bad or sometimes nonexistent rations, hard marches, adverse weather, and incompetent officers. A must-read for anyone interested in a private's eye view of war in the Trans-Miss.
I read the free version on Google Books. Google has scanned many public domain books and while the price is right (free) they have done no editing. Often the scanner makes mistakes with these old books because of faded type and folded pages. At times there are obvious typos and occasionally complete gibberish. I'm almost tempted to shell out for the Camp Pope edition just to have this fine title on my shelf.
I read the free version on Google Books. Google has scanned many public domain books and while the price is right (free) they have done no editing. Often the scanner makes mistakes with these old books because of faded type and folded pages. At times there are obvious typos and occasionally complete gibberish. I'm almost tempted to shell out for the Camp Pope edition just to have this fine title on my shelf.
March 10, 2014
Outstanding memoir from an enlisted man in the 1st Iowa Infantry in the Civil War. This state regiment was raised early in the conflict as a 90-day enlistment, and played a role in the Trans-Mississippi conflict, fighting at Wilson's Creek near Springfield, Missouri.
Although the battle was named a Confederate victory, it was a draw, with both parties leaving the field with about the same number of casualties. The Union accomplished their goal of pushing back against Confederate agitation in an occupied state.
Much better was the commentary about life before the war in Burlington, Iowa, and the political environment. In a time full of historic revisionism about this time in our history, the contemporary account was much more authentic and at times fascinating.
Great read, and another example of where the e-book format is making out of print works easily accessible.
Although the battle was named a Confederate victory, it was a draw, with both parties leaving the field with about the same number of casualties. The Union accomplished their goal of pushing back against Confederate agitation in an occupied state.
Much better was the commentary about life before the war in Burlington, Iowa, and the political environment. In a time full of historic revisionism about this time in our history, the contemporary account was much more authentic and at times fascinating.
Great read, and another example of where the e-book format is making out of print works easily accessible.
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