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Many individuals, institutions, and organizations have graciously contributed their resources, expertise, and time to the creation of this book. The mere mention of some of them here can only be a token of my warmest gratitude for them all. This project was originally supposed to result in an article for the Minnesota Historical Society, which had awarded me a research grant in . A trip that fall to St. Paul and to several other historical societies in southern Minnesota swiftly persuaded me there was plenty of material on the Ninth Minnesota to justify a book. I am most grateful to MHS for its patience in seeing this project to its conclusion and particularly thank Deborah Miller, Sally Rubinstein, and Civil War historian Hampton Smith for their support. At the Minnesota Historical Society Press, Shannon Pennefeather and Ann Regan have been instrumental in the publication of this book, as has my editor , Andrea Rud. In addition to the Minnesota Historical Society, institutions that have provided invaluable documents include the Mower County Historical Society, Olmsted County Historical Society, Winona County Historical Society (and Winona State University’s tremendously useful Winona Newspaper Project online archive), and the Carver County Historical Society. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Nan Card, Curator of Manuscripts at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center. At the National Archives, archivists DeAnne Blanton and Juliette Arai have been most helpful. Professional genealogist Bonnie Cary has diligently copied numerous service records and pension files, and I am especially grateful to her. Other organizations of real value for my research are the Brice’s Crossroads Visitors and Interpretive Center, headed by Edwina Carpenter; the Andersonville National Historic Site; the University ﱸﱷﱶ Acknowledgments of Iowa Special Collections; the State Historical Society of Iowa; the Wisconsin Historical Society; the John Nau III Civil War Collection; and the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield. At the Herrick Memorial Library in Wellington, Ohio, Lynne Welch was especially kind to provide newspaper accounts of the tragic misfortune of liberator John Arnold. This is my first book that has truly benefited from the myriad resources available on the Internet. Such online research organizations as Ancestry.com, Fold Three, Newspaper Archive, Genealogy Bank, the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, and the National Park Service Civil War Soldiers database are invaluable. In exploring various aspects of the liberator story, I was greatly aided by other scholars and researchers. In Minnesota, I would like to thank Jerald Anderson, Roger Norland, and Stephen E. Osman. General Parker Hills has shared his unparalleled knowledge of the battlefield of Brice’s Crossroads and is a good friend. We hope to work together in the near future. Tommy Lee, Dr. John Chisolm, and Bjorn Skaptason have also been helpful regarding Brice’s Crossroads. Dr. Richard Sauers very kindly gave me the citations on Brice’s Crossroads from his extensive index of the National Tribune. For the subject of Union soldiers in Confederate prisons, I could have had no better guide than John Lundquist and his wife, Carol. Jack showed me the ropes when it came to Andersonville and Cahaba. Other prison experts of great help have been Rev. Albert Ledoux, the authority on Florence Prison, and Robert S. Davis and Kevin Frye on Andersonville. Edmund Raus, a retired National Park Service historian, also aided my Minnesota research, and Frank Crawford shared his extensive work on the Ninety-Fifth Illinois. My old museum colleague H. Michael Madaus, a world-class authority on Civil War flags and weapons; renowned Civil War historian Lance Herdegen; and Dan Joyce, Director of the Kenosha Museum, also helped me to learn more about the Civil War. A real pleasure has been making the acquaintance of descendants of soldiers of the Ninth Minnesota. Those who have provided extremely valuable documents and photographs include Dean B. Krafft, Helene Leaf, Brian and Janet Schumacher, Jeff Glover, Carol Jauregui, Dianne M. Bower Clegg and Susan N. Bower-Litzenberger, Dorene Conti, Hiram McCoy, Gay Wilhelm , Loren Rochester, Jean C. Pool, Richard Aslakson, David Beaulieu, Lois Paulson-Kvamme, Jerry Kagele, A. J. Jackson, and Margie Williams Jackson. Richard Frank, Robert Mrazek, Dr. Craig Symonds, James Denny, and J. Michael Wenger have read all or portions of the manuscript, and I am most indebted to them for their comments and corrections. I am responsible for all errors of fact and interpretation that remain. My stalwart friends Bruce C. Acknowledgments [3.91.8.23] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 12:52 GMT) Cazel, Craig Smith, Dr. Steve Ewing, Dr...