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political and statistical records were the following: Hildreth's, Bancroft's and Bryant's Histories of the United States; Appleton's Cyclopedia Annuals; the Whig, Tribune and World Almanacs; the “Iowa Political Register”; Cleveland's “Political Text Book”; Fairall's “Manual of Iowa Politics”; Official Registers of Iowa from 1880 to 1902; Official Registers of the United States from 1846 to 1901; United States and Iowa Census Reports and hundreds of volumes of State Documents.
The record of Iowa in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865, inclusive, has been gathered from nine volumes of the Reports of Adjutant-General Nathaniel B. Baker; numerous histories of Iowa regiments; Ingersoll's “Iowa and the Rebellion”; Stuart's “Iowa Colonels and Regiments”; Lathrop's “Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood”; Greeley's “American Conflict”; Personal Memoirs of Generals Grant and Sherman.
In compiling a history of the causes and events leading to the Civil War the following authorities have been consulted: “Garrison and the Antislavery Movement”; Halloway's “History of Kansas”; “John Brown and Mis Men” by Hinton; Sanborn's “Life and Letters of John Brown”; “Life of Abraham Lincoln” by Nicholay and Hay.
The historical sketches of Iowa counties have been gleaned from more than one hundred county histories: “Andrea's Historical Atlas of Iowa”; Fulton's “Sketches of Iowa Counties” and personal recollections of early settlers.
The biographical sketches have been prepared from data procured from the subjects of the sketches, or from those who knew them intimately where the facts desired could not be found in some of the numerous biographical publications of notable Iowa men and women.
A number of the illustrations in the several volumes were obtained from the “Annals of Iowa,” the “Iowa
