Special investigation of the Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Commission and Valor, Inc. (Valor) for the period January 1, 2006 through October 31, 2007

Special investigation of the Cedar Rapids Veterans Memorial Commission and Valor, Inc. (Valor) for the period January 1, 2006 through October 31, 2007

Dedication of monuments erected by the state of Iowa,commemorating the death, suffering and valor of her soldiers on the battlefields of Vickburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Shiloh, and in the Confederate prison at Andersonville,November twelfth to twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and six,1908.

This book contains information on the dedication ceremony of Iowa monuments on the southern battlefields from the civil war and their final transfer made to the care of the general government. It includes history of the battles, photos and maps.

Years of valor,1969.

This book was written by Edith Wasson McElroy and published by the Iowa Civil War Centennial Commission. It follows the Meigs, a fictitious family from the late 1680's in England to 1865 in Iowa. The Meigs personify the way of life, in a typical Iowa home during this period. Their experiences are those of many early Iowa pioneers and brings to life and into reality, early Iowa life and the Civil War in its climax.