Visitors to the city of Burlington in southeastern Iowa will find one of America’s crookedest streets in the heart of downtown.Snake Alley, initially built in the 1890s to connect the residential district at the top of the bluff with the commercial district below, consists of five half-curv...
During these early days the system was primarily tasked with moving bales of cotton from plantations to the Mississippi River at Bayou Sara. On October 14, 1889 it became part of the larger Louisville, New Orleans & Texas (LNO&T), which itself was folded into the Yazoo & Mississippi ...
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For example, the flag sippi River under Federal control, Steele returned to Helena to of the 4th Texas suffered damage at Sharpsburg and was sent lead an invasion of Arkansas. The ensuing campaign culminated home. From 1865 to 1871, it lay buried in a creek bank to keep it in the ...
Lincoln had cans even today--the tattered Confederate battleflag is buried in a number of Iowa connections. He once owned land there and the mud of the river. With only their guidon as their symbol of gave a campaign speech in Burlington during his 1858 senate race loyalty and esprit de ...
service July 24,1861, our Colo- General Prentiss had been in command of the small army on the nel was a banker named Laumann at Burlington [Iowa]. We march from Pilot Knob, but at Jackson General Grant took com- went down the Mississippi on a small river boat with a barge on mand ...