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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 act 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 mon 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 subdistriets 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- meneed. 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.
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
NUMBER OF TROOPS FURNISIIED 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
2d
1,247
40th
16
900
4th
66
1,184 44th Infantry (100-days men).
867
5th
66
1,037
45th
912
6th
66
1,013 46th 66
66
884
8th
66
1,027
48th Battalion
6 :
66
346
9th
66
1,090
1st Iowa Cavalry.
1,478
10th
66
66
1,027
2d
66
66
1,394
11th
66
1,022
3d
1,360
12th
66
981
4th
1,227
13th
66
66
989
5th
66 66
1,245
14th
66
66
840
6th
1,125
15th
66
66
1,196
7th
562
16th
66
919
8th
66
1,234
18th
66
Sioux City Cavalry *..
93
19th
66
66
Co. A, 11th P'enn. Cavalry.
87
20th
66
925
1st Battery Artillery.
149
21st
66
980
2d 16
123
22d
66
23d
66
66
961
4th
66
152
24th
66
66
995
Dodge's Brigade Band.
14
26th
919
Band of 2d Iowa Infantry.
10
28th
66
956
1864, for the older lowa regiments .....
2,765
29th
66
1,005
Enlistments of Iowa men in regiments of other States, over.
2,500
31st
66
66
925
Total
61,653
33d
66
66
985
Re-enlisted Veterans for different Regi-
953
ments
7,202
35th
66
984 Additional enlistments.
6,664
36th
66
986
914 Grand total as far as reported up to Jan.
38th
910 1, 1865
75,519
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.
66
892
7th
1,138
47th
9th
1,178
985 875
1,008
3d
979
Ist lowa African Infantry, 60th U. St ..
903
27th
66
66
040
Enlistments as far as reported to Jan. 1,
30th
978
977
32d
34th
37th
66
1,074 41st Battalion Iowa Infantry ..
294
3d
66
17th
956
142
25th
233
234
NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AMONG OFFICERS OF IOWA REGIMENTS DURING THE WAR.
TRANSFERRED.
KILLED.
DIED.
DISCHARGED.
WOUNDED.
In action.
Accidentally.
Total.
Of wounds.
Of disease.
By drowning.
For disability.
Cause
Total.
In action.
Accidentally.
Total.
Resigned.
Dismissed.
Captured.
Corps.
appoint- ment.
By
Total.
4
4
34
3
46
1
3
3
1
...
1
1
2
3
1
......
2
2
2
12
12
25
9
39
1
63
5
3
3
3
3
2
4
6
5
5
9
...
...
...
6
6
8
7
31
2
55
4
2
2
51
8
Fifth Cavalry ..
15
2
21
1
1
Sixth Cavalry ..
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
10
10
23
1
41
22
2
2
30
3
3
1
1
2
..
2
2
6
10
.
.
...
No
ca su alt's rep.
Artillery, Second Battery.
1
1
1
1
2
4
1
8
1
1
1
Artillery, Fourth Battery.
4
...
...
...
1
1
8
9
6
6
4
2
6
2
2
23
23
25
Second Infantry.
2
2
1
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
2
5
1
1
16
. . 16
34
... ..
..
·
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
Sixth Infantry.
22
1
23
37
3
73
6
7
7
Seventh Infantry
3
3
1
4
5
2
2
4
14
. .
14
30
2
57
12
1
3
4
Eighth Infantry.
6
6
7
2
9
1
3
5
24
2
26
26
72
9
6
6
Ninth Infantry ....
6
.
.
3
3
2
1
1
4
1
3
4
8
8
25
3
47
4
5
5
Eleventh Infantry ..
3
3
1
8
9
2
2
4
3
...
7
19
...
19
36
1
65
4
4
4
Thirteenth Infantry ..
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
·
·
·
·
15
6
23
1
1
Seventh Cavalry
3
.
25
Ninth Cavalry.
1
1
1
1
Artillery, Third Battery ..
1
...
..
.
5
First Infantry ..
...
...
.
.
.
9
1
1
1
3
3
3
...
.
...
2
Third Veteran Infantry ..
59
5
5
Fourth Infantry ...
4
1
5
...
4
4
3
3
6
....
...
...
...
..
..
...
·
.....
58
1
1
1
4
4
16
...
...
...
...
11
2 13
19
1
45
22
1
1
Twelfth Infantry ....
...
...
...
...
....
.....
...
.
...
...
.
.
·
·
·
·
·
·
·
5
5
2
2
4
1
1
6
6
35
......
. .
1
2
1
1
1
1
...
...
...
3
....
6
6
Fourth Cavalry.
1
1
2
45
1
5
5
First Cavalry.
.
3
...
Total casualties.
o Vet. Res.
REGIMENT OR BATTERY.
un-
known.
Total.
1
...
Eighth Cavalry ..
..
.
.
·
4
1
1
61
Second Veteran Infantry ..
.
.
·
2
3
3
...
...
...
6
Tenth Infantry ..
...
16
32
.
..
Second Cavalry ...
Third Cavalry ...
1
.
·
3
Artillery, First Battery ..
...
Fourteenth Infantry. Fourteenth Residuary Battalion Fifteenth Infantry .. Sixteenth Infantry ...
3
...
3
2
1 | ...
3
..
..
6
6
22||
1
35/ 20
1
......
5
5
6
...
6
2
1
1
3
3
3 22
...
22
1 62 47
15
2
2
5
5
3
3
...
1
1
1
20 5
5
33
5
5
Eighteenth Infantry, ...
5
.
.
1
2
2
Twenty-first Infantry.
47
.....
54
4
1
1
Twenty-third Infantry ..
49
1
2
2
Twenty-fourth Infantry ...
66
3
1
1
Twenty-fifth Infantry ...
2
Twenty-sixth Infantry ..
50
4
1
1
Twenty-seventh Infantry ...
4
4
2
3
5
2
2
4
5 3
3
17
17
27
58
Thirtieth Infantry .....
2
38
5
1
1
2
5
3
4
7
8
1
9
26
42
1
1
4
1
Thirty-second Infantry ...
4
1
..
2
3
1
1
3
3
28
Thirty-fourth Infantry ..
2 12 2
25
...
3
1
5
1
1
2
2 4
16
27
23
1
1
Thirty-fifth Infantry ..
1
6
7
1
2
3
21
3
27
....
...
5
5
15
29
3
1
1
Thirty-ninth Infantry.
2
2
3
9
12
2
2
18
1
35
1
Fortieth Infantry ...
1
1
Forty-fourth Infantry.
No
casu
alt's
......
Forty-fifth Infantry ....
*2
2
1
Forty-seventh Infantry ....
11
3
16
Forty-eighth Infantry (battalion).
1
1
..
.
. 133
2.135
88 115
2 205
[ 5]
1 80 |132 |565
8566 1225 56
2321 241
4 105 |109
..
·
·
·
.
·
·
.
·
·
·
·
.
.
·
·
.
·
.
.
·
·
·
·
·
.
.
·
·
·
·
.
2
2
3 2
2
1
3
4
...
...
. .
. .
1 1 6
19
...
......
...
...
...
3
2
3
5
7
...
16
·
8
39
2
1
Twenty-ninth Infantry ..
4
1
2
7
2
Thirty-first Infantry ....
3
3
3
2
..
5
2
2
1
1
1
...
..
..
...
..
5
11
Thirty-sixth Infantry ...
3
2
2
Thirty-seventh Infantry ..
3
7
2
2
...
.. .
.
·
.
.
·
.
·
·
.
.
·
·
.
·
·
...
.....
.. .
. . ...
1
Total.
235
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
1
..
32
.
.
..
...
2
3
8
8
...
20 26 26 27 23 24 28 17 21 25
33
3
1
1
2
2
1
3
6
...
...
....
1
3
1
..
4 2
2
3
5
...
2
.....
15 22 9
11 22 9 17
1
56
5
2
..
. .
. .
.
.
.
.
.
.
7
2
2
4
4 2
5 6 4 8
1 1 4
2
22
22 7 16
Twenty-eighth Infantry.
33
1
46
·
.
·
.
·
2
....
...
9
13
1
...
...
35
1
..
...
..
4
Thirty-fourth [34th and 38th] consolidated
4
....
.
.
·
.
3
Thirty-eighth Infantry ..
1
1
1
·
.
·
.
Forty-sixth Infantry ....
1
1
First Colored Regiment of Iowa (60th U. S.) ....
.
·
2
...
2
3
1
...
5 3
2
3
2
2
7
7
18
1
36
12
3
3
.
·
.
.
+
.
.
.
.
·
.
.
...
.. 27 13 40 20
69
14
2
2
Seventeenth Infantry.
·
.
.
.
2
1
. .
5
1
...
.
1
1 48
1
4
...
4
Twenty-second Infantry ..
. . ...
19
1
2
2
1
1
. ..
..
...
...
...
9 9
8
Thirty-Third Infantry ....
1 1
3
.. ....
..
..
.
...
.
.
.
·
..
. .
...
6
2
2
21
...
...
21 19
5
...
Nineteenth Infantry Twentieth Infantry ..
. . .
1
2
..
·
..
17
7
4 3
1 5
...
1
.....
..
..
.
.. .....
.
·
.
6
...
1
..
...
2
.
...
NUMBER OF CASUALTIES AMONG ENLISTED MEN OF IOWA REGIMENTS DURING THE WAR.
TRANSFERRED.
KILLED.
| Accidentally.
Total.
Of Wounds.
Of Disease.
| By Suicide.
By Drowning.
Total.
For Disability
Cause Un-
known.
Total.
In Action.
Accidentally.
Total.
Missing.
Captured.
ToV. R. Corps.
By Appoint-
ment.
Total.
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
2:24 ...
2
245
220
85 305
155
2
157
1
770
141
24
7
31
Third Cavalry ...
37
4
41
11
186
4
201
151
82
233
108
4
112
3
590
90
25
8
33
Fourth Cavalry.
36
42
7
127
1
2 137
172
51
223
47
3
50
452
209
14
3
17
Fifth Cavalry.
16
3
19
5
59
2
1
70
70
16
86
15
18
193
1
5
6
Sixth Cavalry ...
37
8
45
2
92
101
2:28
18
246
4
1
8
402
3
5
8
Seventh Cavalry ...
274
237
20
....
.
4
.
·
.
.
·
.
·
.
..
..
.
·
·
·
·
·
·
+
·
·
1
3
1
33
34
23
3
26
15
1
16
11
11
Artillery, 4th Battery ...
7
4
3
13
137
187
CO
First Infantry ..
758
13
9
6
15
Second Infantry.
11 .
11
3
11
14
2
1
3
41
41
Second Veteran Infantry.
67
18
5
3
8
Second and Third Consolidated Infantry ..
52 3
55
28
99 . .
129
163
67
230
333
335
10
749
85
13
4
17
Third Infantry ..
28
23
......
....
57
1
58
51
237
2
290
152
146
298
319
3 322
973
44
30
32
Fourth Infantry ..
59
1
60
29
90
1
120
222|
15
237
278
1
282
699
96
45
2
47
Fifth Infantry ..
102
102
30
124
154
211
47
258
331
4
335
85)
54
7
7
Sixth Infantry. ...
04
94
35
135
2
172
180
108
288
328
3
331
..
.
.
.
49
1
50
44
137 ...
1
182
245
63
308
210
4 214
8
761
382
21
13
64
Eighth Infantry.
76
2
78
57
208| .. ...
1|
266
243
26
269
954
5
359
1
973
23
24
....
24
Ninth Infantry ...
56| 1|
57
35|
134 ....
170
137 115, 252| 257
4) 261]
16|
41
5
48
Tenth Infantry ..
34
8
42
20
187
1
4
312
187
16
203
81
3
84
2
543
21
14
22
36
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
165
.....
12
12
5
7
. .
107 ..
4
128
137
191
328
244
1
245
69
1
. .
...
..
...
4 ..
4
27
27
14
14
28
8
..
. .
.
10
1
1
17
17
1
9
.
·
....
885
73
15
-1
22
Seventh Infantry ..
....
7
3
51
54
25
9
34
28
1
29
Artillery, 1st Battery.
62
1
5
1
6
1
1
1
29
30
16
16
14
1
15
Artillery, 2d Battery.
79
Artillery, 3d Battery.
5
1
6
...
..
7
...
5
. .
1
4
3
..
...
..
55 3
58
17
162
3
175
54
8
62
13
2
15
258
1
10
1
11
5
1
6
10
91
4
104
49
15
64
75
2
77
2
Eighth Cavalry ..
24
3
27
9
...
.
.
.
.
.
Ninth Cavalry ...
124
...
3
3
7
. .
·
.
·
.
2
17
*Independent Company Sioux City Cavalry.
+Company A, 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry ... Dodge's Brigade Band ..
8
. .
...
2
2
Third Veteran Infantry.
...
......
236
DIED.
DISCHARGED.
WOUNDED.
In Action.
REGIMENT OR BATTERY.
6
..
...
..
...
....
. .
1
..
1
20
..
.
Total Casualties.
...
...
Eleventh Infantry . Twelfth Infantry ..
..
54| 1| 55
25| 148| ... 1
174|
121| 124
30) 151|| 220 257 208
226|1 209
610|1 768
59|1
26|
11
19
3
22
Thirteenth Infantry ...
65 1
66
34
182
1
217
77
269 190 11 302
290 162
4 294 162
6 852 526
84 249
13
10 1
23 2
7
4 32
392
2 394
7
1029
78
13
242
21
6
27
Sixteenth Infantry
614
264
23 5
5
10
26 2
28
7
109
3 6
130
183
5
188
190
1
191
562
204
27
13
40
8 . ...
8
5
130 ..
7
142
157
6
163
43
3
46
359
10
36
2
38
Twentieth Infantry ..
37 1
38
29
157
2
188
139
14
153
147
150
2
531
20
49
5
54
Twenty-first Infantry ..
53
1
54
52
126
180
150
8
158
245
245
634
79
40
2
42
Twenty-second Infantry .
39
39
30
196
2
228
171
6
177
123
126
570
11
1
42
Twenty-third Infantry ..
58 1
59
53
197
253
200
4
204
240
3
243
2
761
72
48
6
54
Twenty-fourth Infantry
39.
39
22
199
219
120
18
138
162
2
164
4
564
17
16
8
69
69
Twenty-sixth Infantry ..
7 .
7
14
162
4
180
134
68
202
132
3
135
530
32
40
5
45
Twenty-seventh Infantry .
52.
52
24
180| 1
1
206
166
16|
182
242
4
246
10
696
89
33
10
43
Twenty-eighth Infantry ..
511
53
31
6
37
Twenty-ninth Infantry.
39
1
40
24
233
257
129
13
142
202
205
616
19
46
1
47
Thirtieth Infantry ..
11
11
16
261
277
137
38
175
77
77
540
13
72
......
...
... ...
56
33
203 .
1
237
156
10
166
132
133
589
93
27|
6
33
Thirty-second Infantry ..
25
1
26
37
166
236
109
34
143
166
2
168
1
580
73
18
10
28
Thirty-third Infantry ....
4
...
4
2
228
231
286
27
313
13
13
561
Thirty-fourth Infantry ...
6
1
4
2
10
12
29
36
12
2
14
510
15
51
14
65
23
2
25
19
182
1
1
203
172
17
189
93
93
3
Thirty-fifth Infantry.
619
437
17
6
23
35
35
24
226
1
251
187
4
191
142
142 ....
...
3 .. ...
3
141
1
142
326
30
356
2
503
..
.
..
1
311
108
9
117
2
431
8
4
12
Thirty-eighth Infantry.
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
1
121
11
41
361
2
20
6
26
Fortieth Infantry
2
15
15
17
*Forty-first Infantry (battalion).
15
..
. . .. .
1
1
14
14
Forty-fourth Infantry.
2
2
1
17
1
19
...
. ..
2
2
1
23
24
1
21
28
3
Forty-sixth Infantry ..
1
1
45
1
46
Forty-eighth Infantry ...
4
1
5
1
331
5
337
40
..
40
1
1
.
30 ...
30
32
243 ...
1
276
133
192 137
53
Fourteenth Infantry ..
27
1
28
23
122
145
Fourteenth Residuary Battalion
52 .. ..
52
78| 194
2
274
270
160
49
289
1
14
819
57
57
32 217
..
97
1
..
. .
·
·
4
...
·
·
...
.
53 .
53
33
91
..
..
..
..
.
.
.
...
·
·
.
.
·
...
.
·
· ·
.
..
21
17
248
1
266
117
7
124
97
2
99
1
19 2
..
..
..
...
.....
..
..
1
....
3
3
3
...
..
...
..
..
..
..
2 ..
..
.....
1
1
222
1
1
Forty-fifth Infantry ...
.....
.
..
...
. .
.
4
.....
4
.. ..
..
..
383
1
First African Infantry [60th U. S.] ..
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......
382
15
15
30
11
1
14 27
Fifteenth Infantry .
·
.
·
...
43
43
18|
Seventeenth Infantry ..
449
63
...
..
..
.... 3
.
..
..
.....
204
3
236
140
1
1441
140
3
143
562
24
69
...
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
237
1151 30394 4489 1264 281 1545
.
·
.
8
..
290 225 74
225 73
1
6
119 116 129 222
03
209 222 228
Eighteenth Infantry
Nineteenth Infantry ..
..
..
Twenty-fifth Infantry ...
40, 2
42
29
22
22
Thirty-fourth consolidated Battalion Infantry
66
..
..
Thirty-sixth Infantry
2
Thirty-seventh Infantry ..
1 ...
1
310
....
....
.
.
.
...
..
.
....
..
.
.
47
Forty-seventh Infantry.
4
.... .
..
56
1
..
..
Thirty-fourth [34th and 38th] Infantry consolidated
3
......
72
Thirty-first Infantry ..
....
3
..
6
3
3
1
·
·
37
1
..
..
249
26
3
3
2
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
237
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
253
383
1244
Dallas
14386
12019
5244
854
3170
Davis ..
15757
15565
13764
7264
3448
Decatur.
13249
12018
8677
965
2882
Delaware.
16893
17432
11024
1759
168
3662
Des Moines
35415
27256
19611
12988
5577
6654
Dickinson
1748
1389
180
394
Dubuque
43845
38969
31164
10841
3059
8759 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.
Emmett
1436
1392
105
239
HISTORY OF THE STATE OF IOWA.
POPULATION OF IOWA-CONCLUDED.
AGGREGATE.
COUNTIES.
1875.
1870.
1860.
1850.
1840.
Voters.
Keokok
20488
19434
1327]
482
4202
Kossuth.
3765
3351
416
773
Lee
33913
38210
29232
18861
6093
5709
Linn
31815
28852
18947
5444
1373
7274
Lonisa
12499
12877
10370
4939
1927
2899
Lucas
11725
10388
5766
471
2464
Lyon*
1139
221
287
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
8827
6986
2015
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
Winneshiek
2986
23570
13942
546
406
Woodbury
8568
6172
1119
1776
Worth
4908
2892
756
763
Wright.
3244
2392
653
694
Total
1353118
1191792
674913
192214
43112
284557
* Formerly Buncombe.
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 51º 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
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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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