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" The people of Iowa were early and constant workers in the sanitary field, and by their liberal gifts and personal efforts for the benefit of the soldiery, placed their State in the front rank of those who became distinguished for their exhibitions of patriotic benevolence during the period covered by the war. Agents appointed by the Governor were stationed at points convenient for ren- dering assistance to the sick and needy soldiers of the State, while others were employed in visiting, from time to time, hospitals, camps and armies in the field, and doing whatever the circumstances rendered possible for the health and comfort of such of the Iowa soldiery as might be found there.
"Some of the benevolent people of the State early conceived the idea of establishing a Home for such of the children of deceased soldiers as might be left in destitute circumstances. This idea first took form in 1863, and in the following year a Home was opened at Farmington, Van Buren County, in a building leased for that purpose, and which soon became filled to its utmost capacity. The institution received liberal donations from the general public, and also from the soldiers in the field. In 1865, it became necessary to pro- vide increased accommodations for the large number of children who were seeking the benefits of its care. This was done by establishing a branch at Cedar Falls, in Black Hawk County, and by securing, during the same year, for the use of the parent Home, Camp Kinsman near the City of Davenport. This property was soon afterward donated to the institution, by aet of Congress.
232
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
".In 1866, in pursuance of a law enacted for that purpose, the Soldiers' Orphans' Home (which then contained about four hundred and fifty inmates) became a State institution, and thereafter the sums necessary for its support were appropriated from the State treasury. A second branch was established at Glenwood, Mills County. Convenient tracts were secured, and valuable improve- ments made at all the different points. Schools were also established, and em- ployments provided for such of the children as were of suitable age. In all ways the provision made for these wards of the State has been such as to chal- lenge the approval of every benevolent mind. The number of children who have been inmates of the Home from its foundation to the present time is considerably more than two thousand.
" At the beginning of the war, the population of Iowa included about one hundred and fifty thousand men presumably liable to render military service. The State raised, for general service, thirty-nine regiments of infantry, nine regiments of cavalry, and four companies of artillery, composed of three years' men ; one regiment of infantry, composed of three months' men ; and four regi- ments and one battalion of infantry, composed of one hundred days' men. The original enlistments in these various organizations, including seventeen hundred and twenty-seven men raised by draft, numbered a little more than sixty-nine thousand. The re-enlistments, including upward of seven thousand veterans, numbered very nearly eight thousand. The enlistments in the regular army and navy, and organizations of other States, will, if added, raise the total to upward of eighty thousand. The number of men who, under special enlistments, and as militia, took part at different times in the operations on the exposed borders of the State, was probably as many as five thousand.
"Iowa paid no bounty on account of the men she placed in the field. In some instances, toward the close of the war, bounty to a comparatively small amount was paid by cities and towns. On only one occasion-that of the call of July 18, 1864-was a draft made in Iowa. This did not occur on account of her proper liability, as established by previous rulings of the War Department, to supply men under that call, but grew out of the great necessity that there existed for raising men: The Government insisted on temporarily setting aside, in part, the former rule of settlements, and enforcing a draft in all cases where subdistricts in any of the States should be found deficient in their supply of men. In no instance was Iowa, as a whole, found to be indebted to the General Government for men, on a settlement of her quota accounts."
It is to be said to the honor and credit of Iowa that while many of the loyal States, older and larger in population and wealth, incurred heavy State debts for the purpose of fulfilling their obligations to the General Government, Iowa, while she was foremost in duty, while she promptly discharged all her obligations to her sister States and the Union, found herself at the close of the war without any material addition to her pecuniary liabilities incurred before the war com- menced. Upon final settlement after the restoration of peace, her claims upon the Federal Government were found to be fully equal to the amount of her bonds issued and sold during the war to provide the means for raising and equipping her troops sent into the field, and to meet the inevitable demands upon her treasury in consequence of the war.
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HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
NUMBER OF TROOPS FURNISHED BY THE STATE OF IOWA DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION, TO JANUARY 1, 1865.
No. Regiment.
No. of men.
No. Regiment.
No. of men.
1st Iowa Infantry
959
39th Iowa Infantry.
933
3d
66
1,074
41st Battalion Iowa Infantry ..
294
5th
1,037
45th
912
6th
1,013
46th
892
7th
1,138
47th
66
884
Sth
1,027
48th Battalion
346
9th
66
1,090
1st Iowa Cavalry
1,478
10th
66
1,027
2d
66
1,394
11th
1,022
3d
66
1,360
12th
66
981
4th 66
1,227
13th
989
5th
66
66
1,245
14th
840
6th
1,125
15th
1,196
7th
562
16th
60
919
8th
66
1,234
956
9th
66
1,178
18th
66
875
Sioux City Cavalry *.
93
985
Co. A, 11th Penn. Cavalry.
87
20th
925
1st Battery Artillery
149
21st
66
980
2d
1,008
3d
66
142
23d
66
961
4th
979
1st Iowa African Infantry, 60th U. S ...
903
25th
995
Dodge's Brigade Band.
10
27th
66
940 Enlistments as far as reported to Jan. 1,
956
1864, for the older Iowa regiments ....
2,765
29th
1,005
Enlistments of lowa men in regiments. of other States, over
2,500
31st
977
Total.
61,653
33d
985 Re-enlisted Veterans for different Regi-
953
ments.
7,202
36th
66
986
37th
914 Grand total as far as reported up to Jan.
38th
66
910/ 1, 1865.
75,519
2d
1,247
40th
900
4th
1,184|
44th Infantry (100-days men)
867
17th
22d
26th
66
978
32d
925
34th
35th
984 Additional enlistments.
6,664
This does not include those Iowa men who veteranized in the regiments of other States, nor the names of men who enlisted during 1864, in regiments of other States.
* Afterward consolidated with Seventh Cavalry.
+ Only a portion of this regiment was credited to the State.
152
24th
14
28th
30th
919 Band of 2d Iowa Infantry.
123
19th
234
REGIMENT OR BATTERY.
In action.
| Accidentally.
Total.
Of wounds.
Of disease.
| By drowning.
For disability.
Cause
Total.
In action.
Accidentally.
Total.
Resigned.
Dismissed.
Captured.
To Vet. Res.
Corps.
ment.
Total.
1
...
1
1
2
3
1
1
4
4
34
3
46
1
3
3
First Cavalry ....
2
2
12
12
25
3
45
1
5
5
Second Cavalry ...
3
3
2
4
6
5
5
9
9
39
1
63
5
3
3
Third Cavalry ....
3
5
5
2
2
4
1
1
6
6
35
.....
1
15
2
21
1
1
Sixth Cavalry ..
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
10
10
23
1
41
22
2
2
Eighth Cavalry.
3
3
1
1
2
25
30
Ninth Cavalry ...
1
1
1
1
2
2
6
10
Artillery, First Battery.
No
ca su alt's rep.
1
1
1
1
2
4
1
8
1
..
..
1
..
.
6
4
2
6
2
2
23
23
25
61
1
1
8
9
Second Infantry ..
2
2
1
1
....
1
1
1
1
1
3
6
1
1
Second and Third Infantry (consolidated)
2
2
4
4
1
1
35
34
40
81
8
2
2
Third Infantry ..
2
3
3
3
2
5
1
1
16
16
34
59
5
5
4
1
5
5
1
6
2
4
6
17
17
28
1
63
7
3
3
Fifth Infantry ..
7
7
1
2
3
1
4
5
18
18
32
2
67
2
1
1
4
4
3
3
6
...
...
3
3
1
4
5
2
2
4
14
..
14
30
2
57
1
3
4
Eighth Infantry.
6
6
7
2
9
1
3
5
24
2
26
26
72
9
6
6
Ninth Infantry ...
6
6
....
...
.....
.
3
3
2
1
1
4
1
3
4
8
...
13
19
I
45
22
1
..
..
2
..
2
4
3
...
7
19
.
19 |1 36
1
65
4
..
...
.
. .
3
6
6
6
6
8
7
31
2
55
4
2
2
8
...
...
..
..
1
1
2
1
1
1
15
6
23
1
1
Seventh Cavalry.
3
3
...
·
.
·
.. .
...
....
..
2
2
....
...
..
...
..
.....
Fourth Cavalry ..
51
Fifth Cavalry ....;
Artillery, Second Battery.
1
1
1
Artillery, Fourth Battery ..
4
4
5
First Infantry ..
6
.
.
9
1
1
3
3
3
Second Veteran Infantry ..
...
....
. .
..
...
...
...
...
.
..
7
7
Sixth Infantry ...
22
1
23
37
3
73
6
..
. .
..
.....
58
1
...
1
1
Tenth Infantry ....
Eleventh Infantry.
3
3
1
8
9
Twelfth Infantry ...
Thirteenth Infantry ..
NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AMONG OFFICERS OF IOWA REGIMENTS DURING THE WAR.
TRANSFERRED.
KILLED.
DIED.
DISCHARGED.
WOUNDED.
un-
known.
Total.
..
....
...
...
...
..
...
...
.
.
...
..
4
4
16
16
32
8
25
3
47
4
..
5
1
4
4
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
...
.....
Third Veteran Infantry .. Fourth Infantry.
.....
....
..
..
...
...
Seventh Infantry ...
12
..
11
2
...
....
...
...
...
...
1
. .
Artillery, Third Battery ..
1
Total casualties.
appoint-
By
-
Fourteenth Infantry ..
Fourteenth Residuary Battalion
6
.. .
6
2
1
1
3
3
3
22
...
22
27
1
62
5
5
5
Fifteenth Infantry ...
5
5
3
2
3
1
5
1
1
19
1
20
40
69
14
2
2
Sixteenth Infantry.
2
5
33
......
2
1
3
. ..
..
1
2
2
2
2
1
3
6
..
11
26
1
48
1
2
2
Twentieth Infantry ..
1
...
.
·
.
4
2
2
3
2
5
1
3
4
1
17
17
23
54
4
1
1
.. .
.
.
.
7
49
1
2
2
Twenty-fifth Infantry ..
2
2
4
4
8
4
2
6
22
22
28
66
3
1
1
2
2
50
4
39
2
1
Twenty-ninth Infantry ..
1
5
2
3
3
17
...
8
33
1
46
...
..
...
9
13
1
38
5
1
1
2
Thirty-first Infantry ...
3
3
3
2
5
3
4
7
9
2
8
1
9
26
42
1
1
4
4
Thirty-second Infantry ...
4
1
5
1
1
3
3
28
35
1
4
Thirty-fourth Infantry ..
12
2
25
Thirty-fourth [34th and 38th ] consolidated
3
3
1
4
. .
..
.
.
1
...
3
1
2
3
21
3
27
2
2
Thirty-seventh Infantry
3
.. .
·
·
.
...
2
2
18
1
35
1
Fortieth Infantry.
I
1
Forty-fourth Infantry.
No
casu
alt's
Forty-fifth Infantry ..
2
2
1
1
Forty-seventh Infantry ...
11
3
16
First Colored Regiment of Iowa (60th U. S.) ..
1
1
1
I
Total.
133
2 135
88 115
2 205
1 51
80
|132
6
22|
1
35|| 20
3
1 . .. ]
3
2
1
3
1
1
.....
..
..
...
...
..
...
6
2
2
21
21
13
47
15
2
2
Seventeenth Infantry ..
18
1
36
12
3
3
Eighteenth Infantry, ..
33
3
1
1
Nineteenth Infantry ..
1
. .
1
3
1
4
2
3
5
...
22
26
1
56
5
47
... ..
...
...
19
19
24
1
·
.
·
.
·
·
2
4 2
6 4
1 1
..
...
·
.
.
·
·
·
·
3
3
2
3
5
2
2
4
16
16
21
1
Twenty-seventh Infantry ..
4
4
2
3
...
2
3
5
8
8
8
25
.
...
27
58
.
.
.
.
4
2
2
2
2
. .
...
3
...
1
1
1
I
2
...
...
1
2
...
27
23
1
1
Thirty-fifth Infantry ..
11
Thirty-sixth Infantry ..
3
...
.
.
3
Thirty-eighth Infantry ..
2
2
5
5
15
29
3
1
1
Thirty-ninth Infantry ...
2
2
3
9
12
. .
...
.
·
·
.
·
.
·
·
1
.. .
·
.
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
·
.
.
.
·
.
·
·
.
Forty-sixth Infantry ...
1
1
Forty-eighth Infantry (battalion).
...
..
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
1
1
.
·
.
...
565 { 8 566 1225 56 |2321 241
4 105 109
..
5
...
2
2
...
..
...
. .
1
..
. .
2
2
2
...
9
27
Twenty-second Infantry
2
Twenty-third Infantry ..
...
...
5
7
..
7
17
32
....
1
1
..
.
1
1
...
...
9
2
Thirty-Third Infantry ...
1
2
..
5
4
4
16 5
.
.
......
..
. . . .
.
.
....
7
.
.
.
235
-
·
7
2
Twenty-fourth Infantry.
Twenty-sixth Infantry.
...
..
...
Twenty-eighth Infantry ..
17
Thirtieth Infantry .....
..
...
2
..
1
7
......
. .
15 22 9
6
20
5
20
....
5
5
5
5
Twenty-first Infantry ...
4
·
.
·
..
1
..
6
.
236
NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AMONG ENLISTED MEN OF IOWA REGIMENTS DURING THE WAR.
TRANSFERRED.
KILLED.
DIED.
DISCHARGED.
WOUNDED.
In Action.
Accidentally.
Of Wounds.
Of Disease.
By Suicide.
By Drowning.
For Disability
Cause Un -
known.
Total.
In Action.
Accidentally.
Missing.
Captured.
ToV. R. Corps.
By Appoint-
ment.
Total.
34
8.
42
20
187
1
4
312
187
16
203
81
84
2
543
21
14
22
36
First Cavalry ...
37
3
40
28
191 ...
3
222
140
29
169
158
3
161
10
602
73
26
11
37
Second Cavalry.
58
4
62
19| 224 ...
2 245
220
85
305
155
157
1
770
141
24
7
31
Third Cavalry ...
37
4
41
11
186 ...
4
201
151
82
233
108
112
3
590
90
25
8
33
Fourth Cavalry ..
6
12
7
127 1
137
172
51
223
47
3
50
452
209
14
3
17
Fifth Cavalry ..
16
3
19
5
59 2
4
70
70
16
86
15
18
193
]
5
6
Sixth Cavalry.
37
8
45
92
101
228
18
246
4
1
8
402
3
5
8
Seventh Cavalry ..
24
3
27
0
91
1
104
49
15
64
75
77
2
274
237
20
20
5
1
6
10
162 ..
3
175
54
. 8
62
13
15
258
1
10
1
11
Artillery, 1st Battery ..
1
1
1
29
30
16
16
14
1
15
62
1
5
1
6
Artillery, 2d Battery ..
2 1
1
33
34
23
3
26
15
1
16
79
..
..
. .
.
1
6
11
11
Artillery, 4th Battery .....
7
7
5
3
...
.....
Dodge's Brigade Band.
12
12
5
..
1
128
137
191
328
2-4
1
245
758
13
9
6
15
55 3
58
17
107
...
1
11
11
3
11
..
27
..
.
129
163
67
230
333
2
335
10
749
85
13
4
17
Third Infantry ..
28
23
......
..
Third Veteran Infantry.
57
1
58
51
237
290
152
146
298
319
322
973
. 44
30
32
Fourth Infantry.
59
1
60
29
90 1
120
222
15
237
278
282
699
96
45
47
Fifth Infantry ...
102
....
102
30
124
154
211
47
258
331
4
335
855
54
15
21
13
34
Eighth Infantry ...
76
*2
78
57
208
1|266
243
26
269
354
5
359
1
973
23|
24
.... . .
24
Ninth Infantry ..
56] 1|
35 134| ....
170| 137| 115 252| 257|
4
261
739
16
41]
5
48
Tenth Infantry ..
...
3
51
54
25
9
34
28
1
29
124
..
3
..
..
. . ...
..
..
Artillery, 3d Battery ..
17
..
...
7
...
*Independent Company Sioux City Cavalry.
1
.....
+Company A, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry.
3
13
137
137
165
..
...
Second Infantry.
14
2
1
41
41
69
. ...
. . ...
.
67
18
5
3
8
27
14
14
28
8
8
......
...
3
55
28
99
...
10
1
....
1
17
17
1
..
...
2 172
180
108
288
328
3
331
....
Seventh Infantry ..
19
1
50
14
137
....
1) 182
245
63
308
210
4
214
8
885
78
94
....
94
35
135
....
·
4
4
..
52
2
2
....
7
....
22
Sixth Infantry.
761
382
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
...
..
..
3
Ninth Cavalry ...
..
5
..
1
...
.. .
First Infantry ..
......
1 ......
..
.
..
..
..
..
Eighth Cavalry.
36
Total.
Total.
Total Casualties.
REGIMENT OR BATTERY.
Total.
....
1
Second Veteran Infantry.
Second and Third Consolidated Infantry ..
.....
Eleventh Infantry .
19
3
22
Twelfth Infantry ....
65
1
66
34
182
1
217
77|
269
290
4
294 162
1
526
249
13
10
23
27
1
28
23
122
145
53
190
162
11
270
32
302
392
2 394
7
1029
78
13
14
27
52 .
52
78
32
217
....
249
160
49
289
1
290
14
819
242
21
6 3
26
Seventeenth Infantry ..
449
63
5
5
10
26
2
28
7
109
3
119
6
5
188
190
1
191
562
204
27
13
40
8 ...
8
5
130 ...
142
157
6
163
43
46
359
10
36
2
38
Twentieth Infantry ..
37
1
38
29
157
2
139
14
153
147
3
150
2
531
20
49
5
54
Twenty-first Infantry ...
8 158
245
245
634
79
40 41
1
42
Twenty-third Infantry ...
58
1
59
53
197
3
253
200
4
204
240
3 243
2
761
72
48
6
54
Twenty-fourth Infantry
39
39
22
199
120
18
138
162
2
164
4
564
17
16
8
69
'I'wenty-fifth Infantry ...
40| 2
42
29
204 ...
3
140
1
141
140
3
143
562
24
69
....
5
45
Twenty-seventh Infantry
52
52
24
180 1
1
206
166
16
.182
212
4
246
10
696
89|
33
10
43
Twenty-eighth Infantry ..
19
2
21
17
248
1
266
117
7
124
97
99
1
511
53
31
6
37
Twenty-ninth Infantry.
39
1
40
24
233
257
129
13
142
202
205
646
19
46
1
47
Thirtieth Infantry ..
11
11
16
261
277
137
38
175
77
77
540
13
72 . .. ....
72
Thirty-first Infantry.
56
56
33
203
1
237
156
10
166
132
1
133
589
93
27 .
6
33
Thirty-second Infantry
25
1
26
37
166 ...
236
109
34
143
166
2
168
7
580
73
18
10
28
Thirty-third Infantry ....
4
4
2
228 1
231
286
27
313
13
13
561
3
22
22
Thirty-fourth Infantry .
6
Thirty-fourth consolidated Battalion Infantry
66
3
1
4
2
10. ..
12
29
7
36
12
2
14
510
15
51
14
65
23
2
25
19
1821
1
203
172
17
189
93
93
3
619
437
17
6
23
35
35
24
226
1
251
187
4
191
142
142
Thirty-sixth Infantry ..
3
3
141
1
142
326
30
356
2
503
..
. .
:
33
1
34
21
119 ...
1
141
89
34
123
105
3
108
406
203
12
3
15
Thirty-ninth Infantry ..
5
5
10
179 ... ..
5
194
117
4
121
41
41
361
2
20
6
26
Fortieth Infantry
17
*Forty-first Infantry (battalion).
15
1
1
14
...
. .
2
2
1
17
1
19
....
1
1
22
1
1
Forty-fifth Infantry ... Forty-sixth Infantry.
2
2
1
23
.. :
47
Forty-seventh Infantry ..
1
1
45
1
46
...
4
Forty-eighth Infantry.
1
1
5
1
331
...
5
337
40
40
-
...
383
1
.... ..
·
.
.
.
·
·
.
.
·
.
·
.
.
.
.
·
.
.
.
54| 1
55|
25| 1481 ... 1 174||121
1
276 124
208
......
768 852
6
84 15
15
30
Thirteenth Infantry ..
Fourteenth Infantry ..
17
1
1
2
Fourteenth Residuary Battalion.
Fifteenth Infantry ..
57 .
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
·
·
·
·
43
43
18
97
1
93
209 222 228
225 73
..
225 74
8
614
264
23
53
..
·
·
·
.
·
·
·
·
.
·
.
.
·
Twenty-second Infantry .
39
39
30
196
228
171
6
177
123
3
126
570
3
.
7.
7
14
162
4
180
134
68
202
132
3 135
6
530
32
40
...
.
...
.
·
·
·
.
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
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* Before transferred to 7th Iowa Cavalry.
¡ Partial returns. 1940 78 2017|1199 8695| 8.109|10011 8005 1982 9987 8180| 112 8282|
4 610/1
59 382
26
11| 37
30 ...
30
·
.
·
·
·
Sixteenth Infantry ..
..
.
53
33
91 ...
2
42
53
1
54
52
126
2
188 180
...
..
..
..
...
.
.
.
:
..
...
3
3
3
. .
..
...
..
2 . . ...
2
Thirty-seventh Infantry ..
1
1
310 .. ..
1
311
108
9 117
)
431
.....
8
1
12
Thirty-eighth Infantry
..
...
..
2
2
15
15
14
Forty-fourth Infantry ..
28
3
...
24
1
21
4
..
.....
..
1
First African Infantry [60th U. S.] ..
7
4
194
2! 274
27
Eighteenth Infantry .
6 130
183
Nineteenth Infantry ..
1
.
..
. .
..
...
..
..
..
. .
..
...
...
.
·
.
..
...
. .....
·
..
..
115| 30394 4489 1264 281 1545
. .
..
2
3
.. ..
..
..
3
Thirty-fourth [34th and 38th] Infantry consolidated Thirty-fifth Infantry ...
50 1010
...
..
... ..
192 137
30} 151|| 220] 133 257
68 1 226|| 209
.....
Twenty-sixth Infantry .
69
219 236
...
..
3
150
..
·
..
.
57
32 243 ...
1
...
.
2
116 129 222
238
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
POPULATION OF IOWA, BY COUNTIES.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1875.
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
Voters.
Adair.
7045
3982
984
1616
Adams
7832
4614
1533
1727
Allamakee
19158
17868
12237
777
3653
Appanoose
2370
16456
11931
3131
527
Audubon.
17405
1212
454
3679
Benton
28807
22454
8496
672
4778
Black Hawk
22913
21706
8244
135
4877
Boone
17251
14584
4232
735
3515
Bremer
13220
12528
4915
2656
Buchanan
17315
17034
7906
517
3890
Buena Vista
3561
1585
57
817
Buncombe*
Butler
11734
9951
3724
2598
Calhoun
3185
1602
147
681
Carroll.
5760
2451
281
1197
Cass
10552
5464
1612
2422
Cedar.
17879
19731
12949
3941
1253
3934
Cerro Gordo
6685
4722
940
1526
Cherokee.
4249
1967
58
1001
Chickasaw
11400
10180
4336
2392
Clarke
10118
8735
5427
79
2213
Clay.
3559
1523
52
868
Clayton
27184
27771
20728
3873
1101
5272
Clinton.
34295
35357
18938
2822
821
5569
Crawford
6039
2530
383
1244
Dallas.
14386
12019
5244
854
3170
Davi
15757
15565
13764
7264
3448
Decatur
13249
12018
8677
965
2882
Delaware
16893
17482
11024
1759
168
3662
Des Moines
35415
27256
19611
12988
5577
6654
Dickinson
1748
1389
180
394
Dubuque.
43845
38969
31164
10841
305
8759
Emmett
1436
1392
105
299
Fayette.
20515
16973
12073
825
4637
Floyd.
13100
10768
3744
2884
Franklin
6558
4738
1309
1374
Fremont
13719
11173
5074
1244
2998
Greene.
7028
4627
1374
1622
Grundy
8134
6399
793
1525
Guthrie
9638
7061
3058
2339
Hamilton
7701
6055
1699
1455
Hancock
1482
999
179
303
Hardin
15029
13684
5440
3215
Harrison
11818
8931
3621
2658
Henry
21594
21463
18701
8707
3772
4641
Howard
7875
6282
3168
1712
Humboldt
3455
2596
332
695
Ida ..
794
226
43
172
Iowa.
17456
16644
8029
822
3576
Jackson
23061
22619
18493
7210
1411
4901
Jasper
24128
22116
9883
1280
5239
Jefferson
17127
17839
15038
9904
2773
3721
Johnson.
24654
24898
17573
4472
1491
5225
Jones
19168
19731|
13306
3007
471
4180
* In 1862, name changed to Lyon.
239
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
POPULATION OF IOWA-CONCLUDED.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1875.
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
Voters.
Keokok
20488
19434
13271
4822
4202
Kossuth
3765
3351
416
773
Lee
33913
38210
29232
18861
6093
5709
Linn.
31815
28852
18947
5444
1373
7274
Louisa
12499
12877
10370
4939
1927
2899
Lucas
11725
10388
5766
471
2464
Lyon*
1139
221
Madison
16030
13884
7339
1179
2632
Mahaska
23718
22508|
14816
5989
5287
Marion.
24094
24436
16813
5482
4988
Marshall
19629
17576
6015
338
4445
Mills
10555
8718
4481
2365
Mitchell
11523
9582
3409
2338
Monona
2267
3654
832
1292
Monroe
12811
12724
8612
2884
2743
Montgomery
10389
5934
1256
2485
Muscatine
21623
21688
16444
5731
1942
6588
O' Brien
2349
715
8
595
Osceola
1778
498
Page.
14274
9975
4419
551
3222
Palo Alto
2728
1336
132
556
Plymouth
5282
2199
148
1136
Pocahontas
2249
1446
103
464
Polk.
31558
27857
11625
4513
6842
Pottawattomie.
21665
16893
4968
7828
4392
Poweshiek
16482
15581
5668
615
3634
Ringgold
7546
5691
2923
1496
Sac ..
2873
1411
246
657
Scott.
39763
38599
25959
5986
2140
7109
Shelby
5664
2540
818
1084
Sioux
3720
576
10
637
Story
13111
11651
4051
2574
Tama
18771
16131
5285
8
3911
Taylor
10418
6989
3590
204
2282
Union
882
6986
2012
1924
Van Buren
17980
17672
17081
12270
6146
3893
Wapello
18541
22346
14518
8471
3923
Warren ..
19269
17980
10281
961
4168
Washington.
23865
18952
14235
4957
1594
5346
Wayne
13978
11287
6409
340
2947
Webster
13114
10484
2504
3747
Winnebago
24233
1562
168
4117
Winneshick
2986
23570
13942
546
406
Woodbury
8568
6172
1119
1776
Worth
4908
2892
7561
763
Wright.
3244
2392
653
694
Total.
1353118
1191792
674913
192214
43112
284557
* Formerly Buncombe.
287
240
THE NORTHWESTERN STATES.
ILLINOIS.
Length, 380 miles, mean width about 156 miles. Area, 55,410 square miles, or 35,462,400 acres. Illinois, as regards its surface, constitutes a table-land at a varying elevation ranging between 350 and 800 feet above the sea level ; composed of extensive and highly fertile prairies and plains. Much of the south division of the State, especially the river-bottoms, are thickly wooded. The prairies, too, have oasis-like clumps of trees scattered here and there at intervals. The chief rivers irrigating the State are the Mississippi-dividing it from Iowa and Missouri-the Ohio (forming its south barrier), the Illinois, Wabash, Kaskaskia, and San- gamon, with their numerous affluents. The total extent of navigable streams is calculated at 4,000 miles. Small lakes are scattered over vari- ous parts of the State. Illinois is extremely prolific in minerals, chiefly coal, iron, copper, and zinc ores, sulphur and limestone. The coal-field alone is estimated to absorb a full third of the entire coal-deposit of North America. Climate tolerably equable and healthy ; the mean temperature standing at about 51° Fahrenheit As an agricultural region, Illinois takes a competitive rank with neighboring States, the cereals, fruits, and root- crops yielding plentiful returns ; in fact, as a grain-growing State, Illinois may be deemed, in proportion to her size, to possess a greater area of lands suitable for its production than any other State in the Union. Stock- raising is also largely carried on, while her manufacturing interests in regard of woolen fabrics, etc., are on a very extensive and yearly expand- ing scale. The lines of railroad in the State are among the most exten- sive of the Union. Inland water-carriage is facilitated by a canal connecting the Illinois River with Lake Michigan, and thence with the St. Lawrence and Atlantic. Illinois is divided into 102 counties ; the chief towns being Chicago, Springfield (capital), Alton, Quincy, Peoria, Galena, Bloomington, Rock Island, Vandalia, etc. By the new Consti- tution, established in 1870, the State Legislature consists of 51 Senators, elected for four years, and 153 Representatives, for two years; which numbers were to be decennially increased thereafter to the number of six per every additional half-million of inhabitants. Religious and educational institutions are largely diffused throughout, and are in a very flourishing condition. . Illinois has a State Lunatic and a Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Jacksonville ; a State Penitentiary at Joliet ; and a Home for
(99)
.
241
THE NORTHWESTERN STATES.
Soldiers' Orphans at Normal. On November 30, 1870, the public debt of the State was returned at $4,870,937, with a balance of $1,808,833 unprovided for. At the same period the value of assessed and equalized property presented the following totals : assessed, $840,031,703; equal- ized $480,664,058. The name of Illinois, through nearly the whole of the eighteenth century, embraced most of the known regions north and west of Ohio. French colonists established themselves in 1673, at Cahokia and Kaskaskia, and the territory of which these settlements formed the nucleus was, in 1763, ceded to Great Britain in conjunction with Canada, and ultimately resigned to the United States in 1787. Illinois entered the Union as a State, December 3, 1818; and now sends 19 Representatives to Congress. Population, 2,539,891, in 1870.
.
242
THE NORTHWESTERN STATES.
INDIANA.
The profile of Indiana forms a nearly exact parallelogram, occupy- ing one of the most fertile portions of the great Mississippi Valley. The greater extent of the surface embraced within its limits consists of gentle undulations rising into hilly tracts toward the Ohio bottom. The chief rivers of the State are the Ohio and Wabash, with their numerous affluents. The soil is highly productive of the cereals and grasses-most particularly so in the valleys of the Ohio, Wabash, Whitewater, and White Rivers. The northeast and central portions are well timbered with virgin forests, and the west section is notably rich in coal, constitut- ing an offshoot of the great Illinois carboniferous field. Iron, copper, marble, slate, gypsum, and various clays are also abundant. From an agricultural point of view, the staple products are maize and wheat, with the other cereals in lesser yields ; and besides these, flax, hemp, sorghum, hops, etc., are extensively raised. Indiana is divided into 92 counties, and counts among her principal cities and towns, those of Indianapolis (the capital), Fort Wayne, Evansville, Terre Haute, Madison, Jefferson- ville, Columbus, Vincennes, South Bend, etc. The public institutions of the State are many and various, and on a scale of magnitude and efficiency commensurate with her important political and industrial status. Upward of two thousand miles of railroads permeate the State in all directions, and' greatly conduce to the development of her expanding manufacturing interests. Statistics for the fiscal year terminating October 31, 1870, exhibited a total of receipts, $3,896,541 as against dis- bursements, $3,532,406, leaving a balance, $364,135 in favor of the State Treasury. The entire public debt, January 5, 1871, $3,971,000. This State was first settled by Canadian voyageurs in 1702, who erected a fort at Vincennes ; in 1763 it passed into the hands of the English, and was by the latter ceded to the United States in 1783. From 1788 till 1791, an Indian warefare prevailed. In 1800, all the region west and north of Ohio (then formed into a distinct territory) became merged in Indiana. In 1809, the present limits of the State were defined, Michigan and Illinois having previously been withdrawn. In 1811, Indiana was the theater of the Indian War of Tecumseh, ending with the decisive battle of Tippecanoe. In 1816 (December 11), Indiana became enrolled among the States of the American Union. In 1834, the State passed through a monetary crisis owing to its having become mixed up with railroad, canal, and other speculations on a gigantic scale, which ended, for the time being, in a general collapse of public credit, and consequent bank- ruptcy. Since that time, however, the greater number of the public
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