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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Title, Analytic | Davenport, Iowa: Dedication of the Forty-eighter 'German Freedom Fighters Monument' |
| Journal Title | Society for German-American Studies Newsletter |
| Date of Publication | June 2008 |
| Volume ID | 29 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 10-11, ill. |
| Language or Document Type | English |
| ISSN | 0741-5733 |
| Abstract | Reports on the group of men from Schleswig-Holstein who in 1848 began a war with Denmark in an effort to attain national unity and democracy. "Unsuccessful in their struggle, many. . . . arrived at a single area in the Midwest, Scott County, Iowa. . . . In 1872 the organized a veterans' society [in Davenport]" and in 1898 they dedicated a "massive stone monument commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Forty-eighters' fight." The monument was defaced during World War I and then it disappeared, and now several German-American organizations in Davenport have rededicated a new stone with an inscription identical to the 1898 original. |
| Notes | SGAS |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | German Americans -- Iowa/ Monuments/ Forty-eighters/ Davenport (Iowa) |