{"id":3382,"date":"2014-09-15T19:32:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T19:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=4157"},"modified":"2014-09-15T19:32:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T19:32:17","slug":"crowdsourcing-soldiers-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/09\/15\/crowdsourcing-soldiers-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing soldiers on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4158\" style=\"width: 562px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/3402\/86550\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4158 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2014\/09\/geo.jpg\" alt=\"George C. Burmeister diary, 1861 | Civil War Diaries and Letters\" width=\"552\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">George C. Burmeister diary, 1861 | Civil War Diaries and Letters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While our\u00a0long-delayed launch of World War I &amp; II documents at <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/\" >DIY History<\/a>\u00a0continues to be long delayed, there are still plenty of items currently available for transcription, including several new additions to our original\u00a0crowdsourcing collection: <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/collections\/show\/8\" >Civil War Diaries and Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among these are four diaries written by Muscatine, Iowa, native George C. Burmeister, a schoolteacher turned Civil War captain. From his first, optimistic entry on <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/3402\/86549\" >January 1, 1861<\/a> (&#8220;Once more we look with anxious expectations into the future, and fondly cherish this day as a harbinger of anticipated fortune&#8221;) to his 1864\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/transcribe\/scripto\/transcribe\/3405\/87094\" >newspaper obituary<\/a>\u00a0(&#8220;Let his memory be cherished as one who died that liberty might live&#8221;), Burmeister&#8217;s story unfolds in the diaries\u00a0as he enlists in the First Iowa Infantry, musters out, studies business and law, applies to the UI, rejoins the army as a captain, and dies in the Battle of Yellow Bayou.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu\/\" >DIY History<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0help improve access to\u00a0the stories of Captain Burmeister and his fellow soldiers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4161\" style=\"width: 368px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Muscatine-in-the-Civil-War\/110225848998613\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4161\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2014\/09\/george.jpg\" alt=\"Burmeister image via Ancestry.com and the\u00a0Muscatine in the Civil War\u00a0Facebook group\" width=\"358\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burmeister image via Ancestry.com and the\u00a0Muscatine in the Civil War\u00a0Facebook group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While our&nbsp;long-delayed launch of World War I &amp; II documents at DIY History&nbsp;continues to be long delayed, there are still plenty of items currently available for transcription, including several new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}