02934nam 2200601 a 450 991045413420332120200520144314.01-58729-734-5(CKB)1000000000575959(EBL)843134(OCoLC)646888985(SSID)ssj0000183592(PQKBManifestationID)11179801(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183592(PQKBWorkID)10196058(PQKB)11060775(MiAaPQ)EBC843134(MdBmJHUP)muse2961(Au-PeEL)EBL843134(CaPaEBR)ebr10354640(EXLCZ)99100000000057595920070227e20072005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIowa's forgotten general[electronic resource] Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War /Kenneth L. LyftogtIowa City University of Iowa Press[2007]1 online resource (132 p.)Originally published: Iowa City, Iowa : Camp Pope Bookshop, 2005.1-58729-612-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-125) and index.Table of Contents; Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Foreword; 1 The Chartist; 2 My Light Is None the Less for Lighting My Neighbor; 3 Iowa; 4 The Butler County Union Guards; 5 The Matter of Rank; 6 The Shelbina Affair; 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 Cavalry; Epilogue: Wheelbarrow; Notes; Bibliography; IndexMatthew 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.GeneralsUnited StatesBiographyIowaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Regimental historiesIowaHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865BiographyUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865Regimental historiesUnited StatesHistoryCivil War, 1861-1865BiographyIowaBiographyElectronic books.Generals973.7/477092BLyftogt Kenneth970336MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454134203321Iowa's forgotten general2269700UNINA