Loyal Union League - September 1863

THROOP, DEAN, ROBINSON, LASH, RANDOLPH, FARIS, FERRIS, HILL, GOODMAN, PHILLIPS, KIBBEN, WILLITS

Posted By: Pat Ryan White (email)
Date: 6/19/2016 at 11:34:05

Loyal Union League, Mount Pleasant, Iowa - September 17, 1863.

Council met as usual…The minutes of last meeting were read and approved…
The Com. on charges of disloyalty then reported, fully sustaining all the charges referred to them the preceding evening, against the following persons: - H.C. Dean, Braxton Robinson, John B. Lash, John H. Randolph, T.E.V. Faris, Enoch S. Hill, Miles Goodman, Daniel Phillips, J.M. Kibben and G.W. Willits. The report was then read a second time and adopted without opposition.

[Accessed online: James A. Throop Records {record book kept by the Loyal Union League of Henry County, Iowa, 1863-1864, which includes bylaws, meeting minutes, a membership list, etc.}, The University of Iowa Libraries – Special Collections, Iowa City, Iowa.]

Note: These Union Leagues were dedicated to supporting the Union cause and the Lincoln administration's policies and were committed to exposing Copperheads (Southern sympathizers) in their midst.

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