{"id":37705,"date":"2014-10-13T23:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T23:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37705"},"modified":"2014-10-13T23:53:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T23:53:26","slug":"iowa-memorial-for-six-brothers-who-died-as-union-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37705","title":{"rendered":"Iowa memorial for six brothers who died as Union soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/house-divided\/wp\/2014\/05\/07\/iowa-memorial-for-six-brothers-who-died-as-union-soldiers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Iowa memorial for six brothers who died as Union soldiers<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-07<\/p>\n<p><strong>Linda Wheeler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A site was approved Tuesday for a memorial to honor six brothers of an African American farm family of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toolesboro,_Iowa\" target=\"_blank\">Toolesboro, Iowa<\/a>, who died as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_Army\" target=\"_blank\">Union soldiers<\/a> during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisa_County,_Iowa\" target=\"_blank\">Louisa County<\/a> Board of Supervisors choose a site near the tiny crossroads community where the brothers were raised in southeast <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Iowa\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illinois\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois<\/a> border.<\/p>\n<p>In 1840, James and Martha Littleton moved from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maryland\" target=\"_blank\">Maryland<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ohio\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio<\/a>, to Iowa where they raised their nine children including three girls. In the1860 census, the family is identified as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">mulatto<\/a>, a term used during that time period to mean they were of mixed race. Research determined Martha was white and her husband, James, was mulatto.<\/p>\n<p>The men served in white military units, volunteering between 1861 and 1862. By 1864, all had died\u2014some in battle and others from disease\u2013 and were buried far from home&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/house-divided\/wp\/2014\/05\/07\/iowa-memorial-for-six-brothers-who-died-as-union-soldiers\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa memorial for six brothers who died as Union soldiers The Washington Post 2014-05-07 Linda Wheeler A site was approved Tuesday for a memorial to honor six brothers of an African American farm family of Toolesboro, Iowa, who died as Union soldiers during the Civil War. The Louisa County Board of Supervisors choose a site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,20],"tags":[5455,18124,18122,18123,2875,18125,2581],"class_list":["post-37705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-iowa","tag-james-littleton","tag-linda-wheeler","tag-martha-littleton","tag-the-washington-post","tag-toolesboro","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}