Colonel William Kinsman was born in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canada on July 11, 1832. In 1855, Kinsman took up residence in Council Bluffs and enlisted as a volunteer with the 4th Iowa after the outbreak of the Civil War.Kinsman was the commander of…

According to Nebraska historian James E. Potter, Nebraskan soldiers carried out a motley variety of tasks: “Nebraskans fought Confederates on Tennessee and Missouri battlefields, carried on a ‘bushwhacker’s’ war with partisans in Arkansas,…