Item #488 The Lyon Campaign: History of the 1st Iowa Infantry. Private E. F. Ware.
The Lyon Campaign: History of the 1st Iowa Infantry.

The Lyon Campaign: History of the 1st Iowa Infantry.

Topeka, KS: Crane and Company, 1907. First. Hard Bound. Ex lib. Blind stamp on title page, heavy library stamp on ffep. Numbers on spine. Pocket on rear gluedown. Book better than it sounds, square and tight. Pale blue boards cleaner than most. / None. Item #488

The First Iowa Infantry was a very early three month regiment. It did service in seeing that Missouri did not go Confederate and then fought at Wilson's Creek. Not much contemporary about this battle. Author states most of the regiment enlisted in other units when their time was up.

Dornbusch I-IA-64. Coulter 464. Narrative rich in Missouri people and regiment life. Nevins I-174.

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