Excerpt from Iowa and the Rebellion: A History of the Troops Furnished by the State of Iowa to the Volunteer Armies of the Union, Which Conquered the Great Southern Rebellion of 1861-5
The following work was first entered upon a little more than four years ago. The fine achievement of the Second Iowa Volunteers, at Fort Donelson, following up the admirable conduct of the Iowa First at Wilson"s Creek, of the Third at Blue Mills Landing, and of the Seventh at Belmont, impelled me to think that the State could scarcely help making a fine record in the war of the Union. I at once began to direct my studies to military works, and to collect materials for the volume now offered to the public, then, of course, but rudely blocked out in my mind.
First of all am I indebted to the reports of the Adjutant-General of the State, which are universally acknowledged to be more full and complete than those of any State in the Union, Maine alone excepted. Meritorious works of a general nature having much bearing upon the events here treated of are rare. But I acknowledge obligations to the first volume of Horace Greeley"s History of the Rebellion, which gives promise of being the most candid, philosophical, and entertaining historical essay which these latter years have produced,- to the Rebellion Record; to Colonel S. M. Bowman and Lieutenant-Colonel R. B. Irwin"s, "Sherman and his Campaigns;" to the United States Service Magazine, a most valuable publication; to Harper"s New Monthly Magazine, but not to the articles by Mr. John S. C. Abbott, which are for the most part the sketches of a too lively imagination; to the Army and Navy Journal (which, published in volumes, may be well enough classed among works of a general nature) that has contained more downright reliable information upon the operations of our armies than can at this time be found elsewhere.
Jomini, perhaps with biographical accuracy, makes Napoleon speak contemptuously of the press. He would not have done it, had he lived in this day and generation. In the columns of the daily journals of our great cities have appeared finer accounts of the battles and campaigns of the late war, than can be found of the battles and campaigns of old in all the pages of classical literature. I may have a bias of professional feeling, but I confess the deepest obligations to the leaders and letters of the New York Tribune, Times, and Post; Forney"s Philadelphia Press; the Gazette and Commercial, of Cincinnati; the Tribune and Journal, of Chicago; the Democrat, of St. Louis; the Republican, Chronicle, and Intelligencer, of Washington.
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