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GEORGIA WADE MCCLELLAN SERVED AS AN ARMY NURSE DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

THE TOWN OF REDFIELD WAS NAMED IN HONOR OF COL. JAMES REDFIELD OF THE IOWA 39TH WHO WAS KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF ALLATOON PASS, GEORGIA ON OCTOBER 5, 1864. SEE ALSO-CO. H 39TH IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY MEMORIAL FLAGPOLE

SEE ALSO-CO. H 39TH IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY MEMORIAL FLAGPOLE PLAQUE

ERECTED BY REDFIELD POST NO. 26 DEPT OF IOWA G.A.R. 1896

COL. REDFIELD WAS KILLED AT THE BATTLE OF ALLATOONA PASS ON OCTOBER 5, 1864. HE WAS COMMANDING THE IOWA 39TH INFANTRY REGIMENT AND WAS SHOT IN THE FOOT. HE REFUSED TO LEAVE HIS POSITION. NEXT HE WAS SHOT IN THE LEG AND IT WAS SHATTERED-HE STILL REFUSED TO ...

ELLIOTT WAS IN THE 7TH IOWA INFANTRY REGIMENT WHICH WAS IN BATTLES AT BELMONT, FORT DONELSON AND SHILOH. HE RECEIVED PROMOTIONS AND LATER RECEIVED COMMAND AT THE DIVISION LEVEL DURING THE MARCH TO THE SEA AND THE MARCH THROUGH THE CAROLINAS. SAMUEL WAS T ...

ON OCTOBER 12, 1864, A BAND OF CONFEDERATE GUERILLAS OR BUSHWACKERS, DRESSED IN FEDERAL UNIFORMS, CROSSED INTO IOWA AND ENGAGED IN MURDER AND ROBBERY IN DAVIS COUNTY. THIS WAS THE NORTHERN MOST CONFEDERATE INCURSION IN FEDERAL TERRITORY IN THE WAR. SEE A ...

SEE ALSO-DAVIS COUNTY CIVIL WAR RAID MEMORIAL

SEE ALSO-TROY HIGH SCHOOL VETERANS MEMORIAL (OVERVIEW)

SEE ALSO-TROY HIGH SCHOOL VETERANS MEMORIAL (CLOSE-UP)

TO HONOR AND COMMEMORATE THOSE WHO ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL

LENOX COLLEGE NAMED BOWEN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE AT THE TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR. MANY OF THE STUDENTS ENLISTED IN THE UNION ARMY DURING THE WAR AND THE MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THEM. DR. MARY EDWARDS WALKER, THE ONLY FEMALE RECIPIENT OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR, WA ...

THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE 14 YOUNG MEN FROM THE AREA WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES DURING THE CIVIL WAR.

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY THOMAS SIMON OF COMPANY K, 21ST IOWA INFANTRY REGIMENT.

SEE ALSO-OAKLAND CEMETERY CIVIL WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL PLAQUE

SEE ALSO-OAKLAND CEMETERY CIVIL WAR VETERANS MEMORIAL