- Subjects
- Published
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Des Moines, Iowa :
State Historical Society of Iowa
2010.
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Physical Description
- 475 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781934417041
- Call to arms
- The medal of honor
- History of the medal
- Design of the medal
- Standards for consideration
- Medal recipients of the Civil War
- Iowa's Civil War medal recipients
- Capturing a train
- William Henry Harrison Reddick
- Capturing the generals
- James Dunlavy
- Calvary Morris Young
- Saving the cannon
- Peter T. Anderson
- Orson W. Bennett
- Nicholas S. Bouquet
- Standards and colors
- Capturing the enemy's flag: Falling Waters, Maryland, July 14, 1863
- Charles M. Holton
- Capturing the enemy's flag : Spotsylvania, May 12, 1864
- Charles L. Russell
- Capturing the enemy's flag: Nashville, Tennessee, December 15 and 16, 1864
- Thomas Parke Gere
- Luther P. Kaltenbach
- William C. May
- Andrew J. Sloan
- George W. Welch
- Capturing the enemy's flag: Selma, Alabama, April 2, 1865
- Nicholas Fanning
- James P. Miller
- Charles A. Swan
- Capturing the enemy's flag: Spanish Fort, Alabama, March 27- April 8, 1865
- Edgar A. Bras
- Capturing the enemy's flag: Fort Blakely, Alabama, April 9, 1865
- Joseph Stickels
- John W. Whitmore
- Capturing the enemy's flag: Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865
- John P. Donaldson
- Capturing the enemy's flag: Columbus, Georgia, April 16, 1865
- Norman Francis Bates
- Edward James Bebb
- Richard H. Cosgriff
- John Henry Hays
- Richard H. Morgan
- Horatio Latin Birdsall
- Andrew W. Tibbets
- Protecting the colors
- James Drury
- James M. Elson
- Voltaire Paine Twombly
- Unto their own
- Pitt B. Herington & William B. Mayes
- Albert W. Power
- Henry Irving Smith
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker
- Valor at Vicksburg
- Champion Hill
- James Hill
- Vicksburg assaults
- James Kephart
- The volunteer storming party
- William Campbell
- Andrew E. Goldsbery
- Other volunteered valor
- Leonidas Mahlon Godley
- Running the batteries
- Henry C. Peters
- The aftermath: siege and surrender
- Unusual acts of valor
- Luman L. Cadwell
- James N. Strong
- John Vale
- Byron E. Pay
- Irwin Shepard
- James Daniel Gardiner
- George Washington Healey
- Edward B. Spalding
- Andrew Traynor
- Exceptional leadership
- Charles A. Clark
- Lewis Addison Grant
- Francis Jay Herron
- Milton T. Russell
- James Alexander Williamson
- Valor on the high seas
- George W. McWilliams
- John C. Hayes
- Healing a nation.