The Civil War recollections of Van Buren Whipple Sargent / transcribed by Janice Sargent Chang ; additional editing and footnoting by Loren N. Horton. 2005?

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The Civil War recollections of Van Buren Whipple Sargent / transcribed by Janice Sargent Chang ; additional editing and footnoting by Loren N. Horton. 2005?

Typed transcription of Sargent's reminiscences with extensive annotations. Also includes three photographs and photocopies of several maps, photos and a newspaper clipping. The reminiscences include descriptions of troop movements, personnel and daily activities of the company and cover Sargent's period of service from August 15, 1862 through August 1865.

36, [8] leaves : ill., maps ; 28 cm. + 3 photographs

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SNAC Resource ID: 7331789

Iowa State Historical Society

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United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 27th (1862-1865). Company F

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Sargent, Van Buren Whipple., b. 1845

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Van Buren Whipple Sargent served with Company F of the 27th Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. At the time of his enlistment he was living with his parents near Yankee Settlement in Delaware County, Iowa. After the war he lived in Fonda, Iowa (Pocahontas County). In the mid 1920s he wrote these reminiscences based on his memory and letters written to his parents during the war which his mother had saved. From the description of The Civil War recollections of Van Buren Whipple Sargen...

Horton, Loren N.

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Chang, Janice Sargent.

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