EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
This History of the Sixth Iowa Infantry was written by General Henry H. Wright who began work on it in 1898 after having been elected regimental historian at a reunion of the regiment.

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THE CALL TO ARMS
It is the task assumed in compiling these pages to trae the course of events in a mighty struggle, and faithfully describe the battles, skirmishes, incidents, toils, dangers, and hardships endured by the men who composed the rank and file of the Sixth Iowa Infantry Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion, from 1861 to 1865.