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PART I Dubuque and Its Soldiers Have you ever seen Dubuque? I could not describe it. No, nor would I if I could, only to say it is a wonderful panorama of art, enterprise and commercial life, engendered in fifteen years from a wilderness of swamps, prairies, sand hills and impenetrable woods. Seventeen thousand souls now hail the sun, rising unfatigued with climbing granite hills over its glittering spires. Babel might here strive to erect its tower, but it would need no imposition of Providence to confound the tongues of the workmen. All nations, races and climates are consolidated in this stupendous land-ark of civilization. . . . Notwithstanding this, Dubuque is an orderly and quiet city, not quiet like an old droning town, but free from popular outbreaks against peace and law. —An 1857 visitor to Dubuque, quoted in the Dubuque Daily Times, September 11, 1857 ...

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