It is Iowa's only Civil War battle site, of sorts. From Croton, we zig-zagged on small roads to Keokuk seeking the grave of Joseph Patterson. Although not our relative, his story is amazing.

It is Iowa’s only Civil War battle site, of sorts. From Croton, we zig-zagged on small roads to Keokuk seeking the grave of Joseph Patterson. Although not our relative, his story is amazing.

The Decoration Day program will be held in the shadow of Iowa’s first Civil War monument. It was built to honor 15 soldiers from the area who died in the war.

NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with actor Hal Holbrook. He's narrating a one-time only performance by the Des Moines Choral Society about Iowa's involvement in the Civil War. Iowans were the first ...

i’m jackie defusco. 15 civil war veterans now have proper grave markers in des moines, clinton glendale cemetery. a retired des moines fire investigator led the effort for the recognition.

He is president of the Army of the Southwest, a Waukee-based organization of Civil War reenactors. Fargo’s most recent project is the production of four CD-ROMs containing 320,000 pages of searchable ...