{"id":37707,"date":"2014-10-14T00:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37707"},"modified":"2014-10-14T00:10:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T00:10:21","slug":"civil-war-memorial-to-honor-toolesboro-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37707","title":{"rendered":"Civil War memorial to honor Toolesboro brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Civil War memorial to honor Toolesboro brothers<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Cedar Rapids Gazette<\/a>
\nIowa City, Iowa
\n2014-09-23<\/p>\n

Alison Gowans<\/strong><\/a>, Features Reporter<\/p>\n

LOUISA COUNTY, Iowa<\/a> \u2014 When the six Littleton brothers of tiny Toolesboro<\/a> set off for war, their sisters had no idea they would never welcome their brothers home.<\/p>\n

The young Louisa County men all sacrificed their lives fighting for the North<\/a> in the Civil War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Their story, which was lost to history until a few years ago, is remarkable in many ways, said Tom Woodruff, a member of the Louisa County Historical Society.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as we know, it\u2019s the largest loss of life in one immediate family in any U.S. war,\u201d<\/strong> he said. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty significant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodruff stumbled on the tale in a scrapbook of Louisa County newspaper clippings dated 1846 to 1906. Brothers Thomas, William, George, John, Kendall and Noah all enlisted and died from wounds, disease or other calamities during the war.<\/p>\n

Woodruff and other members of the Historical Society have been working to research and honor the brothers\u2019 stories, starting with a booklet they published in 2012.<\/p>\n

Now, the Louisa County Board of Supervisors has donated a plot of vacant land in Toolesboro, on the Great River Road adjacent to the Toolesboro Indian Mounds, as a site for a permanent memorial to the Littleton family\u2019s sacrifice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very close to where these boys were raised,\u201d Woodruff said. \u201cIt\u2019s a great spot, an appropriate spot.\u201d…<\/p>\n

…In the 1860 census, they are listed as mulatto, a term used at the time to indicate mixed race. Records show mother Martha was white and father James was mulatto<\/a>. They settled in Iowa<\/a> with the help of abolitionists, Woodruff said. The Littleton brothers joined all-white units when they enlisted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIowa knows how to accept a family into their midst regardless of race, regardless of background, and those people in turn contribute to the freedoms we have in the United States,\u201d Woodruff said. \u201cThey were ordinary boys who sacrificed their lives for us. Iowa raised those boys and they gave back a lot.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Civil War memorial to honor Toolesboro brothers The Cedar Rapids Gazette Iowa City, Iowa 2014-09-23 Alison Gowans, Features Reporter LOUISA COUNTY, Iowa \u2014 When the six Littleton brothers of tiny Toolesboro set off for war, their sisters had no idea they would never welcome their brothers home. The young Louisa County men all sacrificed their […]<\/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":[18128,18127,5455,18124,18130,18123,18126,18129,18125],"class_list":["post-37707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alison-gowans","tag-cedar-rapids-gazette","tag-iowa","tag-james-littleton","tag-louisa-county-historical-society","tag-martha-littleton","tag-the-cedar-rapids-gazette","tag-tom-woodruff","tag-toolesboro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37707","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=37707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}