Springdale, Iowa was a Quaker community w/strong abolitionist ties. Stopped there last week on a John Brown project & found this unrelated but intriguing grave site. Obit from Muscatine Journal (Dec 1902) via @StateCuratorIA

Springdale, Iowa was a Quaker community w/strong abolitionist ties. Stopped there last week on a John Brown project & found this unrelated but intriguing grave site. Obit from Muscatine Journal (12/12/1902) via @StateCuratorIA

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AASLH is proud to announce that we have been selected by @America250 as an inaugural National Resource Partner. National Resource Partners are a select group of expert nonpartisan, nonprofit orgs that will help elevate and scale America250 programming.

This settles the Pop vs. Soda debate

@MiddleWestRev @fleecechase1 Our 2024 Alice Smith Prize in #PublicHistory: congrats to the State Historical Society of Iowa (@IowaMuseum) for their 2023 program highlighting the 1980s #FarmCrisis! @aklumpp was on hand to accept on behalf of SHSI. #MidwestHistory24

A terrific night & great crowd at @IowaStateFair to premiere the new @IowaPBS documentary “Our Great State Fair” chronicling the nearly 170-year history of the Fair. The two 1-hour episodes air on @IowaPBS Aug 1 and Aug 2. Also @PBS app and https://t.co/3CTSJJHc3t

Thanks for the RT, Ty.

Iowans have a tradition of honoring freedom and equality for generations, as early as 1856. Program on 6/12 at State Historical Building of IA, 600 E Locust, w/conversation with long-time Iowans. @blackiowanews @Rushthewriter @NAACPIANE @catchdesmoines @jaybyers @IowaMuseum

.@ridedart honors Juneteenth in #DSMUSA

Note, it was Benton Barracks, not Jefferson Barracks.

Thanks to all the women and men who have died in service to the United States, but especially the dedicated men of the 1st Colored Regiment of Iowa.

Read about men who served in the regiment and made their homes in Newton after the war, see Dwain Coleman’s ISU master’s thesis, “ Still in the Fight: The Struggle for Community in the Upper Midwest for African American Civil War Veterans” https://t.co/ndW5dfiV26

The men received their uniforms in October of 1863, clip from @journalonline of 10/15/1863, and headed to Jefferson Barracks in November, 2nd clip from Muscatine Tri-Weekly Journal, 11/13/1863.

“The records of the First Regiment of Iowa African Infantry constitute a portion of the military archives of the State, and it is therefore given its distinctive place in this work as the only regiment of the Negro race which the State of Iowa sent into the field.”

Adjutant General of IA Guy Logan stated of the regiment in 1911, “Its history, like that of several other Iowa military organizations in which men from other States enlisted, belongs as fully to the State as that of any of the regiments which were organized within her borders.”

I used records transcribed to IA Gen Web by Lynn McCleary of Muscatine County from the “Roster and Records of Iowa Soldiers, War of the Rebellion Historical Sketches of Volunteer Organizations, Vol. 5,” 1911 Her work is here,

Here is a sheet of all the men from the regiment who died in service, https://t.co/Tc1hgyHY54

I created a spreadsheet on the all the men of the regiment. https://t.co/hASgjjTQEW

These men were killed in action at Wallace’s Ferry, AR, 7/26/1864, James M. Bebanean, 18, Belleville, IL David Henshaw, 23, Galesburg, IL Henry Howard, 18, St. Paul, MN Also, Henry Harrison, 19, Ottumwa, died of wounds, 7/29/1865 White Officer Theodore Pratt, 24, Keokuk also KIA