@jttheiowainvestigator: There was a #CivilWar battle that sort of happened in #Iowa!! #History #theiowainvestigator #battleofathens

Brian Hagmeier :

Locally Croton is pronounced as a one syllable word sounding like, Crowtn.

Corbin’s Relics :

I’ve worked at the battle of Athens state park for two summers, I can tell anyone anything they want to know about the site or the battle.

Wag :

Montrose cemetery has some civil war soldiers buried there.

🤤😩🥷Ryan😭👀🦤 :

My great x4 grandpa fought in that battle i believe and he came back to Glenwood to build the church

Michael :

It is also cool because in Croton, there is still buildings with the Cannon fire and in the town of Athens. There’s also buildings with campfire and set up as a state park in Missouri. Keokuk in Lee County has a national cemetery where there is union and Confederate soldiers buried and that is further south of Croton and right on the line of Missouri and Iowa

Iron Lion :

The "Confederate Invasion of Iowa" monument in Davis County marks the furthest northern point of any Confederate incursion into Iowa and Federal territory during the Civil War. You should check it out!

Kristine Lynn ❌ :

I think if I remember right that swatch of Iowa was one of the few places where mixed marriages were legal as well. Someone can double check that, but it was a “free zone” for awhile before it was legalized across Iowa in 1851. I need to research it again but pretty sure that’s accurate.

Jesse Duke :

this is in Coster cemetery in Butler county

moka24 :

orvalshewry :

First

Bizaleth :

Missouri had a confederate government in exile. They went to Joplin first, then they left the state for Texas.