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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Siber, Elizabeth M. |
| Title, Analytic | Experience and Enlightenment: Character Portrait in Letters of Johann Caspar Lohbauer |
| Journal Title | Swiss American Historical Society Review |
| Date of Publication | Feb. 2004 |
| Volume ID | 40 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 4-18 |
| Language or Document Type | pp., ill. |
| ISSN | 0883-4814 |
| Abstract | Johann Caspar Lohbauer's letters written between March 1856 and December 1862 narrate in detail, sometimes with great humor, his life as a farmer in [Bowen's Prairie,] Iowa and later, when he became Clerk to General Curtis, they describe a part of the Civil War that is less known. He admired much in the United States, was puzzled by some social movements, participated very actively politically.... Again and again he justifies his actions in his letters. One can feel his obligation to come up to the intellectual standards of his father, who owned a printing business and a stationary store at the Limmatquai in Zurich. Johann Lohbauer [aka John Lowbower] is buried in Baxter Springs, Kansas, listed as having been "killed in the massacre by the rebel leader Quantrill on October 6, 1863." |
| Notes | Published in book form in Zurich in 1864. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Letters/ Swiss Americans/ Civil War, 1861-1865/ 19th century/ Immigrants, Swiss |