Left for Dixie: The Civil War Diary of John Rath

by Kenneth Lyftogt

Book Overview

Rear cover notes: "John Rath was a young immigrant from Germany who settled in Cedar Falls [Iowa]. He and his older brother enlisted in the Cedar Falls Reserves in August of 1862. The Reserves served as B Company 31st Iowa Volunteer Infantry and were active in every campaign of William Sherman's Army from Vicksburg to Columbia. John Rath and the last of the Company came home on the 4th of July, 1865; his older brother, George, lay buried at a place...

• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 093120951X
• ISBN13: 9780931209512
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Mid-Prairie Books
• Length: 100 Pages