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Notes

N O T E S C H A P T E R 1 I. Albert M. Lea, The Book That Gave Iowa Its Name: Notes on the Wisconsin Territory: Particular(y with Reference to the Iowa District, or Black Hawk Purchase (Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1935). 2. 2. John C. Hartman, ed.. History of Black Hawk County Iowa and Its People, vol. 1 (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1915), 48, 159. 3. Ibid., 38: Peter Melendy, Historical Record of Cedar Falls, the Garden City of Iowa (Cedar Falls, Iowa: Peter Melendy, 1893). 7. 4. Melendy, Historical Record, 79. 5. Glenda Riley, Cities on the Cedar (Parkersburg, Iowa: Mid Prairie Books, 1988). 12. 6. Luella M. Wright, Peter Melendy: The Mind and the Soil (Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1943), 94-95. 7. Hartman, 61. 8. U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census, 1860 (Washington, D . C . :National Archives and Records Service, 1967). roll 312 Iowa Black Hawk to Bremer Counties; Riley, 16. 9. Wright, Melendv, 43-44, 109. 10. Ibid., 109. 11. Roger Leavitt, When Cedar Falls Was Young (Cedar Falls, Iowa: Record Press, l92R), 10; Historical and Biographical Record of Black Hawk County, Iowa, vol. 2 (Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co., 1886). 270. 12. Historical and BiographicalRecord, vol. 2, 233. 13. 1860 Census. 14. William Boehmler, "Chronology of Wm Boehmler," TS, n.d., "Military Affairs," ser. 14, file 1, Archives of the Cedar Falls Historical Society, Cedar Falls, Iowa. 15. Charles Rath, A Love Story (Unpublished manuscript, property of Jean Parker, Waterloo, Iowa). 16. Melendy, Historical Record, 122; Leavitt, 13; Hartman, 366. 17. Hartman, 366. 18. Hartman, 162. 19. Cedar Falls Gazette (hereafter Gazette), 12April 1861. 20. Ibid. NOTES C H A P T E R 2 1 . 1860 Census. 2. Leland L. Sage, A History of Iowa (Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1974), 129. 3. Ibid., 136. 4. Wright, Melendy, 38-39. 5. Ibid., 250. 6. Gazette, 16 March 1860. 7. Gazette, 22 June 1860. 8. Gazette, 25 May 1860. 9. Gazette, 7 September 1860. 10. Webster's Guide to American History (Springfield, Mass.: G & C Merriam Co., 1971), 220. 1 1 . Wright, Melendy, 258. 12. John E. Briggs, "The Enlistment of Iowa Troops During the Civil War," Iowa Journal of History and Politics 15 ( July 1917): 328. 13. Gazette, 18 January 1861. 14. Gazette, 8 March 1861. 15. Briggs, 334; Gazette, 7 June 1861. 16. Gazette, 7 June 1861. 17. Wright, Melendy, 45-46. 18. Gazette, 8 March 1861. 19. Jacob A. Swisher,Iowa in Times of War (Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1943), 77. 20. Gazette, 19April 1861. 21. Ibid. 22. Ibid. 23. Luella M. Wright, "The Pioneer Greys," Palimpsest 22 (January 1941): 10. 24. Gazette, 31 May 1861. 25. Briggs, 343. 26. Wright, "The Pioneer Greys," 14. 27. Gazette, 31 May 1861. 28. Wright, "The Pioneer Greys," 16. 29. Gazette, 7 June 1861. 30. Ibid. 31. Briggs, 334. 32. Dubuque Times, 8 June 1861. 33. Gazette, 7 June 1861. 34. Sgt. John T. Boggs, K Company, 3d Iowa Infantry. Gazette, 7 February 1862. NOTES C H A P T E R 3 1 .Swisher, 133. 2. Lieutenant S. D. Thompson, Recollections With the Third Iowa Regiment (Cincinnati: By the author, 1864), 19. Held in Special Collections, Donald 0. Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls. 3. Mark M. Boatner, The Civil War Dictionary (New York: David McKay Co., 1959), 612. 4. Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, vol. 1(Iowa General Assembly, 1910), 296. 5. Swisher, 115; Thompson, 20. 6. Boatner, 624. 7. Thompson, 30. 8. William E. Parrish, Turbulent Partnership: Missouri and the Union 1861-1865 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1963), 9. 9. Ibid., 15. 10. Ibid., 24. 1 1 .Keokuk Gate City, 29 June 1861; Swisher, 119; Thompson, 30. 12. Thompson, 30. 13. Ibid., 31. 14. Gazette, 26 July 1861. 15. Ibid. 16. Thompson, 39. 17. Captain A. A. Stuart, 17th Iowa Infantry, Iowa Colonels and Regiments: Being a History of Iowa Regiments in the War of the Rebellion (DesMoines, Iowa: Mills and Co., 1865), 82; Roster and Record, vol. 1 , 283. 18. Letter from John Scott to Governor S. J. Kirkwood, 25 June 1861, Records of the Third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, Adjutant General's Records, Record Group No. 3, "Correspondence," Iowa State Historical Society, Des Moines, Iowa. 19. Gazette, 26 July 1861; Thompson, 49-50. 20...