Excerpt from Iowa Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Rebellion
Comrades. Gentlemen, and Ladies:
One of Iowa's leading dailies recently said:
The Navy has not received the recognition in Iowa which the services of her gallant tars merit. Even in speaking or writing about the Iowa soldiers' and sailors' monument, which is the real title of the memorial erected by Iowa people, the sailors are generally omitted.
This criticism was evidently not intended as a reflection on the people of Iowa for any intended slight of the men who represented the State in the Navy during the war, but rather as a reminder that in their great admiration and love for their brave soldiers they might possibly lose sight of the fact that Iowa owes a great debt to her ex-sailors.
The people of this great State - greater in nothing than in her loyalty and in her love for the "old soldier" - would not knowingly and purposely omit mention of the services rendered by her "gallanttars" any more than she would belittle the deeds of her gallant soldiers. She has a warm place in her patriotic, throbbing heart for all her sons who responded to the call of their country to save the Union and defend the flag.
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