History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century/Correction of Errors
Volume I, page xv, The title of illustration, “Breaking Prairie,” &c., the cut was lost and does not appear.
Volume I, page 267, fourth line from the bottom, October, 1863, should be October, 1853.
Volume II, page 39, line 25 from the top, the word fourteen should be eight; and in line 26 the words ten and twenty-two should be three and thirteen.
Volume II, page 77, line 17 from top, F. H. Pierpont should be Frederick Holbrook.
Volume III, page ix, “List of Illustrations,” after “Frontispiece” should be Frederick E. Bissell, page 12.
Volume III, page 274, 9th line from the bottom. Sixth General Assembly should be Sixteenth General Assembly.
Volume III, page x, “List of Illustrations,” “Lead Mining near Dubuque” should be page 438, instead of page 443.
Some of the cuts used in this work were made from old and faded photographs and are imperfect, but the best attainable.
In the case of Colonel Asbury B. Porter, Vol. II, page 387, and Vol. IV, page 214, appears the statement that he was dismissed from the service. This statement made in the published official reports of the Adjutant-General’s office was incorrect.
Colonel Porter resigned for disability, and his resignation was accepted by General Grant, then department commander, March 19, 1863, and he was honorably discharged from the service. Some person reported him absent without leave, and under a misapprehension of the facts, the President ordered his dismissal, April 30.
Instead of entering his honorable discharge on the records, dating from March 8, 1863, the Adjutant-General’s Department erroneously made the entry “Dismissed.” This error has never been corrected in the public Reports of that office: hence writers of war history have been misled and great injustice done a gallant Iowa officer.