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| IV | Effects of John Brown’s Virginia Raid—First Movements Towards Secession—Peace Conventions—Governor Kirkwood’s Suggestions—His Conference with President Lincoln—Seven Slave States Secede Before Lincoln’s Inauguration—South Carolina Inaugurates the Rebellion—Lincoln’s First Call for Volunteers—Iowa Unprepared for War—The First Iowa Regiment Promptly Raised Amid Intense Enthusiasm—How the Money was Raised to Equip the First Regiments—An Extra Session of the Eighth General Assembly Convened—Partisan Consideration Ignored—Union Democrats Declare for a Vigorous Prosecution of War—Resolutions by General Baker and R. D. Kellogg—Governor Kirkwood’s Message—Prompt Action of a Patriotic Legislature | 47-59 |
| V | Measures for the Protection of the State from Missouri Invaders and Sioux Indians—Governor N. B. Baker Appointed Adjutant-General—Political Conventions of 1861—Governor Kirkwood Re-elected—Iowa Raises Sixteen Regiments the First Year—The Ninth General Assembly—The Victory at Fort Donelson—Four Iowa Regiments with the Victorious Army—The Indian Massacre in Minnesota—The Northwestern Settlers Arm for Defense—Military Disasters to the Eastern Union Armies—The President’s Call for Three Hundred Thousand Volunteers—An Extra Session of the Legislature Called by Governor Kirkwood—Prompt Action of the General Assembly to Meet the Exigency | 61-76 |
| VI | The President’s Emancipation Proclamation—Governor Kirkwood Urges the Removal of General McClellan from Command of the Army—The Political Conventions of 1862—Iowa Gains Four Representatives in Congress—The Democrats Carry the Elections in Many Northern States—The Union Armies Defeated in the East and Victorious in the West—Iowa has Forty Regiments in the Field—Copperheads and Knights of the Golden Circle—They Denounce the |
