Category: Historical Research
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Minnesota’s Citizen-Soldiers in the Civil War and Dakota War of 1862: Race, War, and Memory in the North
An Explanation of the Research Questions and Methodological Framework In July 1862 James Madison Bowler, a sergeant in the 3rd Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, wrote home to his wife Elizabeth Caleff Bowler in Nininger, MN. He wrote from his camp just outside of Nashville, TN as a recently paroled prisoner of war. He spoke of…
Caleb Curfman 