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  1. D.A. Mahony recounts his kidnapping by the Union Army in his book Prisoner of State.
    date August 14, 1862 to November 11, 1862map DUBUQUE, Iowatags Imprisonment, Civl War, War

    In the early morning of August 14, 1862, D.A. Mahony was aroused from his sleep by a man, representing the Secretary of War, named Mr. Gregory. With several Union soldiers surrounding his home and threatening to murder him and his wife if he resisted, Mahony found himself unable to escape his arrest.  Mahony was taken from his home by Gregory and the Union soldiers. The Democratic editor of the Dubuque,...