A document protesting the war against the south. It states that the war is being fought "that Lincoln might be great" and "the nigger might be free." Calls for the impeachment on Lincoln, accusing him of treason.

Life during and after the war

Also on Microfilm available from Media Services, film number 8444

Begins in Thibodoux, Louisiana on July 5. The soldiers are put onto a boat in the Mississippi River which almost immediately runs aground on a sandbar. They are transferred to another boat, the original boat is freed from the sand bar, then they are transferred once again to the original boat. They then travel out into the gulf, past the Tortugas, past the Hatteras Lighthouse, and up the east coast to Chespeake Bay. They travel up the Potomac River. They disbark and travel overland to participate in battles at Winchester and Cedar Creek. Rupp was from Vinton, Iowa. He enlisted on August 12, 1862, was mustered in on September 2, 1862, and mustered out on July 31 1865 at Savannah, Georgia. This journal was donated by the Owen Winfield Family.

Apparently a newspaper extra, announcing John Minor Botts' plan to march to Washington at the head of 7,000 men to protect the capitol. Botts was a Virginian. No date and no place of publication.

Iowa Infantry, 38th Regiment, Company A