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Category: <span>Civil War</span>

LEST WE FORGET: The 4th of July, 1863

July 4, 2022 John T. Pregler

July 4, 1863, is one of the most critical days in our nation’s history. As critical as July 4, 1776!…

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Posted in: Civil War, Dubuque, Military Filed under: Civil War, Dedication Day, Lake Delhi, Memorial Day, Upper Bay Settlement Cemetery

Captain Rathbone – On Duty in Dubuque

November 18, 2018 John T. Pregler

With the explosive crack of the assassin’s Derringer pistol, Major Henry Rathbone jumped to his feet in an effort to…

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Posted in: Biography, Civil War, Dubuque, Military Filed under: 12th U.S. Infantry, 13th U.S. Infantry, Dubuque, Henry Reed Rathbone, Samuel S. Newbury Jr.

Frederick Douglass – Orations in Dubuque

August 20, 2017 John T. Pregler 3d Comments

The years immediately after the end of the American Civil War in 1865, U.S. President Andrew Johnson and the Republican…

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Posted in: African-American, Biography, Civil War, Photography, Politics Filed under: Frederick Douglass, Samuel Root

Dubuque Civil War Veterans Graves Mapped

June 9, 2017 John T. Pregler

I first became active in locating and documenting Civil War veteran graves in the early 1990’s as part of a…

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Posted in: Civil War, Dubuque Filed under: Andersonville, Benton Barracks, Bentonville, Charles Jones, George Wallace Jones, Hammel, Healey, Henderson, Kiene, Newbury, Pregler, Rathbone, Shiloh

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