Frederick Johnson enlisted in the Union army in 1862, a member of Company F, Sixth Iowa Infantry. He received a gun shot wound at the batt...

Hospital No 4, Div. 15th A. C. Nov. 27 1863 Dear Parents: I have sad news for you; the worst that can come from me. We have been in an...

The 6th Iowa Inft. – Intelligence from this regiment, looked for with so much anxiety since the battle of Chattanooga, has at length come, t...

Owing to the disturbance of mail arrangements, this letter did not reach us until yesterday. Ed. Jackson Mississippi July 18th 1863 Dear Sen...

We make the following extracts from a letter written home by Frederick Johnson, while in line of battle on the north of Jackson, July 13th. ...

We have just read a letter from F. B. Johnson to his friends at home, who have heard nothing from him before, since the battle near Jackson,...

Private, Co. F, 6th Iowa Infantry The son of Freeborn W. & Electa (Barrows) Johnson, he was born August 4, 1844 in Indiana. He moved wit...

We have been permitted to read a letter from F. B. Johnson, Co F. 6th reg., who tells us that the health of the 6th is very good, that all o...