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Union Township Self Protection Society records Civil War era
This feature recounts the Union Township Self Protection Society and Home Guards of Union Township Hardin County Iowa during the Civil War. It details their aims to support the Union, oppose hostile elements, protect livestock, and the vigilante measures used. Names of officers and members, Constitution and by laws, meetings from August 1862, lists of officers, and community notes accompany the historical narrative.
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Horror Herald
Union Township Protection Society
Home Guards
Union Township
Silas Hays
Willet M. Hays
Washington, D. C
Pioneer Times
War Times
Knights of the Golden Circle
Army of the Union
O. B. Chapin
Hardin County
Ssen
A. F. Wood
Cuarnes J. Hays
Union Township Self Protection Society
David Lawin
Benjamin Neigns
Alason Wood
L.F. Sanderson
J. Q. Hutson
Iowa
Lewis Rash
Sanderson
John Hutson
Benjamin Negus
David Sawin
B.S. Sawin
F. Wood James B
Carter J. Q
Hutson
Jacob E. Carter
G. A. Sawin
Jasper Bowen
Melvin Rash
Andrew Reed
Salem Hartinger
VY. H. Rickard
John C. Hartinger
David Ratliff Q
Wood J.T. Baker
Hutsonsaac
Garrison
Dirsh Wilcox
Jesse T. Turner
Charles Betts
J. T. Sloan
Thomas Hutson
Aristo Wilson
Jobe Crist
Wm, Lochard
Perry Boyer
John Valentine
S. B. Collins
John Reed
Jacob Zufall
Alfred Wilson
Hudson Cramer
G. H. Williams
W. H. Moore
Joseph
Hunt
Henry W. Abbott
John Rogers
W. A. Sloan
David B. Kinsey
Ziba Valentine
G. W. Lochard
Calvin Hutson
James Valentine
Q. B. Chapin
M Clover
Thomas Lochard
Gilbert Hans Chas, P. Marshall
J. D. Wilcox
Alanson Wood
Ezekial Sawin