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200 12$aA damned Iowa greyhound$b[electronic resource] $ethe Civil War letters of William Henry Harrison Clayton /$fedited by Donald C. Elder III
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc1998
215   $a1 online resource (249 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-219) and index.
327   $aContents; Introduction; 1. "We Were Mustered into the Service Yesterday"; 2. "We Are in the 'Army of the Frontier'"; 3. "It Was a Perfect Slaughter Pen"; 4. "Vicksburg Is Ours"; 5. "We Held Them at Bay for Two Hours"; 6. "If the North Would Remain United"; 7. "We Will Be Apt to Wake Things Up in Alabama"; 8. "I Long to Get upon Old Chequest Again"; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index
330   $aWilliam Henry Harrison Clayton was one of nearly 75,000 soldiers from  Iowa to join the Union ranks during the Civil War. Possessing a high  school education and superior penmanship, Clayton served as a company  clerk in the 19th Infantry, witnessing battles in the Trans-Mississippi  theater. His diary and his correspondence with his family in Van Buren  County form a unique narrative of the day-to-day soldier life as well as  an eyewitness account of critical battles and a prisoner-of-war camp.Clayton participated in the siege of Vicksburg and took part in  operations against M
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