Drawbridge Operation Regulations; Upper Mississippi River, Fort Madison, IA and Burlington, IARoger K. Wiebusch
the Arkansas River had Unfortunately, the Rebels marred the memory of their triumph by been denuded of forage, refusing to take black prisoners, even butchering wounded sol- the roads leading south diers from the 1st Kansas Colored. were bad, and Confederate Many of these atrocities were ...
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 corps, Shelby's men entered Mexico on the against Stephen A. Douglas. When he was president Lincoln ap- ...
Drawbridge Operation Regulations; Upper Mississippi River, Ft. Madison, Burlington, and Dubuque, IA, and Rock Island Arsenal, ILSteve Venckus
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 ...