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And we return to our American stories.

Up next, a story from our regular contributor and recipient of our great American storyteller award, Joy Neal Kidney, who listens to us at our great station and partner IHeart's W.HO. in Des Moines.

Today, Joy shares with us a Civil War story about a family member entitled

Hilled on Independence Day. Take it away, Joy.

James Redfield of Wisconsin, Iowa served only one term in the Iowa Senate.

After the call for volunteers came from the White House,

James Redfield became Lieutenant Colonel of Company H. 39th Iowa Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.

I've read that only single men were accepted as volunteers, but Redfield was a family man, as were others

in his unit. Iowa still wasn't a state when he graduated from Yale in 1845. Redfield raised a company

of soldiers, most of whom were from Indiana, ex-Husiers like himself.

When they marched for the South later that year,

there were at least three Marshal men along,

the brothers Colin and Miles C.

and a nephew, Clayton, all ex-Husiers.

Old Miles Marshall of Economy Indiana was always an abolitionist.

He and a great many others had hoped that the Whig Party would abolish slavery.

Two of his sons, Colin and Miles C., better known as Bob,

served in the war between the States, as well as three grandsons,

Clayton, and two more in Indiana regiments.

Several of Miles Marshall's children had already moved to Dallas County, Iowa,

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