Below are a collection of primary documents and photographs that illuminate the lives of USCT Pvt HENRY COWDEN and his wife ROSANNA MUDD COWDEN in southeastern Iowa during Reconstruction and into the first half of the 20th-century.
From time to time this page will be updated, changed and expanded. If you have ANY primary or second documentation from the era of Pvt HENRY and ROSANNA MUDD COWDEN, or personal papers related to them, their heirs, their antecedents or of their slaveholders or their antecedents' slaveholders, please do not hesitate to contact me at: DanaTurner@pvthenrycowdenusct.ourfamily.com
Sample Photo 1
U.S.C.T. recruits and African-American laborers
Sample Photo 3
African-American man in bondage
Sample Photo 5
Early class of students at Tuskeegee Institute about 1890
