Civl War vet reports of pro-German activity, sending images of the Kaiser and von Hindenberg in mail.

The Fort Madison German militia company was one of several military units in Northern states composed of German-American volunteers. German-American men volunteered in disproportionately high numbers for the Union army.

Selections from Civil War diary kept by the thirty-year-old Jacob Naumann, a German-born Union soldier. Includes hand-drawn sketches of individual skirmishes and individual entries.

Civil war hymn book kept by Union solider Jacob Nauman, featuring a defaced section on temperance.