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December 2018 Iowa
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: War Papers (MOLLUS) – Iowa and Vermont
Iowa book cover.
Nearing the end of our yearlong examination of the MOLLUS Papers, five states remain, along with their respective collections. This month, accounts from the Iowa Commandery, volumes 55 & 56, along with Vermont, volume 57, mark our focus. Of note, also found within the Vermont collection, are miscellaneous papers from the District of Columbia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Vermont book cover. Pennsylvania. As a reminder on the back- (also check http://suvcw.org/molground of this series, the first two lus/molid.htm) and at the Internet volumes of the Broadfoot 1990s Archives, http://bit.ly/2EVfpPC. reprint set, unnumbered, consist Researchers wishing to purof ‘Biographical Sketches of chase the printed set may do so Contributors,’ and ‘Companions.’ at Broadfoot Publishing, http:// The second volume offers hun- www.broadfootpublishing.com. dreds of photographs of the Remember to check WorldCat various members. The collected http://www.worldcat.org/ for help papers from the commanderies ap- in finding the Papers in a local lipear in the following order. Ohio, brary; search ISBN 1568370016. volumes 1-9; Illinois, 10-13D; Continued good luck in researchMissouri, vol. 14; Kansas, 15; ing the Civil War! Readers wishMaine, volumes 16-19; New York, ing to view all the articles in this 20-23; Indiana, 24; Nebraska, 25; series thus far can visit https:// Minnesota, 26-31; Rhode Island, issuu.com/mshaffe3. 32-41; District of Columbia, 4245; Wisconsin, 46-49; Michigan, Michael K. Shaffer is a Civil War 50-51; Massachusetts, 52-54; historian, author, lecturer, inIowa, 55-56; Vermont, 57; structor, and a member of the Pennsylvania, 58-59; California Society of Civil War Historians, the and Oregon, volume 60; and a Historians of the Civil War Western four-volume index completes the Theater, the Georgia Association Broadfoot set. of Historians, and the Georgia Next month, this column Writers Association. Readers will conclude the review of the may contact him at mkscdr11@ MOLLUS Papers, with a look gmail.com, or to request speakat Pennsylvania, California, and ing engagements, via his website Oregon. Digitized-versions of www.civilwarhistorian.net. Follow MOLLUS exist online at the organi- Michael on Facebook www.facezation’s website: http://suvcw.org/ book.com/michael.k.shaffer and mollus/warpapers/warpapers.htm Twitter @michaelkshaffer.
Vol. 1 (1893) Article/Author My First Campaign - By Colonel G. A. Hannaford
Vol. 2 (1898) Article/Author General McClellan - By LieutenantColonel Chas. A. Clark
Personal Recollections of 1861 - By General J. M. Tuttle
My Experience in Pope's Retreat By First Lieutenant M. T. V. Bowman The Private - By Major E. H. Conger
Reminiscences of Prison Life and Escape - By Captain Milton Russell, Co. A, 51st IN Inf. U.S.V. Campaign of General Steele: Personal Reminiscences of F. M. Drake on the Campaign of General Steele through Arkansas to join General Banks on the Red River Expedition - By Brevet Brigadier General F. M. Drake My Campaigning with the Army of the Tennessee - By Major H. L. Swords Diary and Personal Recollections of the Second Grierson Raid through Tennessee and Mississippi, December, 1864, and January, 1865, and the General Wilson Raid through Alabama and Georgia during the moths of March and April, 1865 - By Captain F. S. Whiting First Year's Medical History of the Twenty-Fourth Iowa - By Surgeon John F. Ely Sketches of the Thirteenth Iowa - By Adjutant H. H. Rood The Obedience and Courage of the Private Soldier, and the Fortitude of Officers and Men in the Field, in Hospital, and in Prison, with some Incidents of the War - By Brevet Major-General William W. Belknap The Martial Spirit a Factor of the Best National Life - By Chaplain A. L. Frisbie The Battle of Shiloh - By Colonel William T. Shaw Champion's Hill - By Sergeant Charles L. Longley Generals Curtis and Crocker - By Hon. George G. Wright Lincoln and McClellan - By Captain William T. Rigby Memorial Exercises. General W. T. Sherman. In Memoriam. - By Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Gatch Memorial Exercises. General W. T. Sherman. Biographical and Historical Address - By Hon. William B. Allison General George H. Thomas - By Major F. H. Loring Six Months in the Third Cavalry Division Under Custer - By Companion W. G. Cummings The Loyal Legion - By LieutenantColonel G. A. Hannaford Our Order of the Loyal Legion - By Captain E. B. Soper Personal Reminiscences of Shiloh By Captain C. P. Searle Impressions of the Realities of War By Major George R. Skinner
Johnston's Surrender to Sherman By Lieutenant-Colonel Geo. L. Godfrey
The Second Class Member, Who He is, and What He is For - By Frank A. Sherman The Legacy of the War - By Captain Buren R. Sherman
Grant From Point Pleasant to Riverside - By Chaplain James Marshall Military Discipline - By Captain E. L. Marsh General O. M. Mitchell, and His Brilliant March into the Heart of the Southern Confederacy - By Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. Gatch A Chapter From the History of Company D, Twelfth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, In the Union Brigade By Captain E. B. Soper Comparison of the Two Sides When the Struggle Began - By Lieutenant C. E. Cline The Women of the War - By Lieutenant J. F. Merry The Memories of the Camp Fire By Charles Mackenzie The Loyal Legion's Day - By Chaplain A. L. Frisbie Hold the Fort! - By Captain John Q. Adams The Fifteenth Iowa at Shiloh - By Captain James G. Day
Vermont (1901) Article/Author From the Rapidan to Richmond By William L. Greenleaf
The Fall of Richmond - By Joel C. Baker The Colored Soldier in the War of the Rebellion - By E. Henry Powell The Element of Romance in Military History - By George C. Benedict
A Month on a Transport - By Joseph H. Goulding President McKinley - By William P. Dillingham
D.C. Supplement (1892) Historic Arlington. The Story of the National Cemetery - By Karl Decker and Angus McSween Maine Supplement (1916)
Historical Address at the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Maine Commandery - By Henry S. Burrage Maryland Supplement (1913) Lincoln, the Statesman - By George Whitlock Massachusetts Supplement (1915/1926) The Inspiration of the Loyal Legion - By Henry M. Rogers America in Two Wars - By Henry M. Rogers New York Supplement (undated)
The Forager in Sherman's Last Campaign - By Major Samuel Mahon Sumter Anniversary: Address of Welcome - By General D. B. Hillis
The Ordinance of 1787 and The War of 1861 - By Wager Swayne
Sumter Anniversary: Response - By Commander Rood
Ceremonies in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln
Pennsylvania Supplement (1909)
Sumter Anniversary: Fort Sumter By Adjutant J. W. Muffly Sumter Anniversary: Address - By Captain E. B. Soper Sumter Anniversary: Recollections of Sumter Day - By The Commandery The Great American Civil War, as Sumter Anniversary: The Three distinguished from all the other Wars Months' and the Three Years' of History - By Adjutant Charles Volunteers of 1861 - By Captain Mackenzie Thomas Hedge Iowa's Record. A Sketch of Iowa's Sumter Anniversary: The Wives of Wantthe ToWar Advertise WarLegioniers News? Email usM.atA.ads@civilwarnews.com or Record during for the In Civil the - By Mrs. Preservation ofCall the Union – 1861Higley 800-777-1862. For a rate sheet visit: www.civilwarnews.com. 1865 - By Adjutant H. H. Rood Charge of the Light Brigade – Sumter Anniversary: From Camp to Colonel George W. Crosley Cottage - By Judge J. S. Woolson A Historic War Song. How and Sumter Anniversary: Keokuk in the where I wrote "Sherman's March to Civil War - By Companion D. B. the Sea" - By S. H. M. Byers Hamill The Colored Man in the Civil War -