[TheMidnightPoet]

And on the same side, too. I had two great-great-grandfathers on each side of the war. I just figure the ones in Yankee blue were immigrants who didn't know any better.

[EternalVigilance]

;-)

Interesting historical tidbit: Iowa contributed a higher percentage, per capita, of soldiers to the Union effort than any other State.

Of course, the State was not even 2 decades old at the outbreak of the war, so the population was pretty low as yet.