[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.

[TheMidnightPoet]

You do know that all of those flags from the Confederacy in that link you posted were captured, don't you? Iowa had no companies in the Confederate Army. They probably did have some individual soldiers, though. I think all of the states were probably represented in both armies.

One of those First National Confederate flags was apparently captured in Cairo, Illinois down at the bottom of Egypt. It's still pretty well Southern down there. Illinois is a very long state. It runs from the equivalent latitudes of Boston, Massachusetts to Portsmouth, VA. Cairo, Illinois is south of Richmond, VA where the capitol of the Confederacy was. Illinois definitely had native sons on both sides of the war.