An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . t. Although we have filled four several requisitions of the presi-dent for troops, and organized four r
An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa . t. Although we have filled four several requisitions of the presi-dent for troops, and organized four regiments and one battalion,during the last two years, yet the entire cost to the state will notexceed one thousand dollars. While I was anxious that our stateshould promptly discharge its entire duty in contributing to thenational defense, in the way of furnishing men, I refused to defraythe expense involved in recruiting and forwarding our quotas fromthe state treasury ; and accordingly the expenditures thus madewere paid by disbursing officers assigned by the war residue of the expenditure of these two years was incurred inorganizing the state militia, under act of the general assembly, ap-proved March 26,1865, transporting arms and ammunition, expenseof the adjutant generals office, detail of men for protecting south-ern border counties from threatened raids in the fall of 1864 andthe winter of 1865, and for all other military purposes except thesanitary 330 Ttittles History of Iowa. We give in the following a somewhat lengthy extract from thegovernors message in relation to Iowas war claims against theUnited States. The history of these claims, and the difficultiesin settling them, is a subject worthy the able treatment given itby the governor: 111 desire in this connection, as briefly as I can, to present thecondition of our claims against the United States for reimburse-ment under the acts of congress above referred to. The sumsembraced in thes
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