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These letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, during the American Civil War. Most of the letters were written to Scott's neighborhood friend Hannah Cone, in their home town of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, over the three year period that he served as Company A's clerk. "><META name="keywords" content="civil war, war between the states, war of northern aggression,Iowa, Union, lesson plans, Confederate, soldier, letters, diary, love letters, correspondence, Scott, Cone, Dalby, Proudfoot"><!-- pulled out head java script --></HEAD><BODY bgcolor="#ffffff" BACKGROUND="blu.gif"><div id='diigo_sta' class='diigolet' style='border-bottom:1px solid #888;margin-bottom:5px;position:absolute;top:0;background-color:#fff;z-index:999;width:100%'><p style='font-size:14px;width:100%;margin:5px 10px;color:#666'>This is a cached version of <a href='http://www.civilwarletters.com/'>http://www.civilwarletters.com/</a>. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.</p><a style='position:absolute;right:20px;top:5px;color:#666' href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='document.getElementById("diigo_sta").style.display="none";return false'>x</a></div><FONT FACE="Arial, , Geneva, Helvetica"><br><blockquote><center><H3>Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War </H3> </center></blockquote><P><center><!-- Table Tag --><TABLE CELLSPACING=6 CELLPADDING=2 BORDER=6><TR><TD><img border="0" src="scott.jpg" width="180" height="297"></TD><TD><img border="0" src="cone.jpg" width="180" height="297"></TD></TR></TABLE><H3>Newton and Hannah Scott</H3></center><BLOCKQUOTE><P><FONT SIZE=4><FONT SIZE=6> T</font>hese letters are part of a collection written by Newton Robert Scott, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers. Most of the letters were written to Scott's neighborhood friend Hannah Cone, in their home town of Albia, Monroe County, Iowa, over the three year period that he served as Company A's clerk. The final letter, describing the long-awaited mustering
The Valley of the Shadow is an electronic archive of two communities in the American Civil War--Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennyslvania. The Valley Web site includes searchable newspapers, population census data, agricultural census data, manufacturing census data, slaveowner census data, and tax records. The Valley Web site also contains letters and diaries, images, maps, church records, and military rosters. The Valley project is a University of Virginia research project funded in part by the National Endowment of the Humanities.
Audio clips of the war's outbreak from the BBC
First World War.com - A multimedia history of world war one