Loading…
Iowa's forgotten general : Matthew Mark Trumbull and the Civil War /
Matthew 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, h...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2007]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Matthew 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. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (131 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-125) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781587297342 1587297345 |