{"id":2640,"date":"2019-02-11T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2019-02-11T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:11:06","slug":"native-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/native-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Voices: Native American Civil War Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us tonight for a special program from IWU alum Quita Verban\u00a0Shier (&#8217;60), who will be speaking about Company K of the\u00a01st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters in the Civil War. This all-Native American company is the subject of Shier&#8217;s recent book\u00a0Warriors in <em>Mr. Lincoln\u2019s Army: Native American Soldiers Who Fought in the Civil War<\/em>.\u00a0Attendees will learn from the soldiers themselves as Shier reads from their letters home about the effects that the war and even the long absences from home had on their health and healing. The program will take place in Beckman Auditorium in The Ames Library from 6:00\u20137:00p.m, and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/vufind.carli.illinois.edu\/vf-iwu\/Record\/iwu_677428\">check out Shier&#8217;s book<\/a> from The Ames Library afterwards.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2641\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2641\" class=\"wp-image-2641 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/12\/nativesoldiers-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/12\/nativesoldiers.jpg 731w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/files\/2018\/12\/nativesoldiers-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tradingcardsnpsyahoocom\/7222837630\">National Park Service<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us tonight for a special program from IWU alum Quita Verban\u00a0Shier (&#8217;60), who will be speaking about Company K of the\u00a01st Regiment Michigan Volunteer Sharpshooters in the Civil War. This all-Native American company is the subject of Shier&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/native-soldiers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61],"tags":[166,15,205],"class_list":["post-2640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ames-highlights","category-library-news","tag-exhibitions","tag-exhibits","tag-native-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}