Solungen Edvard Østmo var gullgraveren som ble sørstatssoldat. Han slo seg ned i en øde kommune i delstaten Iowa, sammen med mange solunger. Også hans egne firmenninger, Gunerius og Theodor Hundbu. Begge to ble også soldater i den amerikanske borgerkrigen. Dette er deres historie.
Kilder:
- Karl Jakob Skarstein: Gettysburg 1863, Spartacus forlag, 2012, nb.no.
- Torbjørn Greipsland: Nordmenn i dødsleirene, Emigrantforlaget, 2005, nb.no.
- Champ Clark: Decoying the Yanks: Jackson’s Valley Campaign, Alexandria, Time-Life Books, 1984
- Peter Cozzens: Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
- Gary Gallagher: The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003
- James Murfin: The Gleam of Bayonets: The Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign of 1862, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Sutton & Co, 1965
- James R. Keeler: No delay in loading! Sutton & Co.`s dispatch line for San Francisco. The magnificent A1 first-class clipper ship, New York: Nesbitt & Co printers
- Carl Cutler: Queens of the Western Ocean; The Story of America’s Mail and Passenger Sailing Lines. Annapolis, United States Naval Institute, 1961
- Francis Augustin O’Reilly: The Fredericksburg Campaign: Winter War, the Rappahannock, Louisiana State University Press, 2003
- Mark Boatner: The Civil War Dictionary, Vintage, 1959.
- Steve A. Hawks: The Civil War in the East, Stone Sentinels, 2017
- Charles O. Paullin & John K Wright: Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, Carnegie Institute of Washington and the American Geographical Society of New York, 1932
- Ronald H. Bailey: The Bloodiest Day: The Battle of Antietam, Time-Life Books, 1984
- Hancock County Goverment (): History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and, Achievement. Chicago, Pioneer Publishing Company, 1917
- Charles S. Grunder & Brandon H. Beck: The Second Battle of Winchester. Lynchburg: Howard, 1989
- Harry W. Pfanz: Gettysburg: Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1993
- Hans Marius Trøseid: Hof bygdebok, bind II, nb.no
- Digitalarkivet: Passprotokoll for Solør og Odalen fogderi 1843-1857 og Solør fogderi 1857-1887. Fylke: Hedmark. Kommune, 1947: Brandval, Eidskog, Grue, Hof, Kongsvinger, Nord-Odal, Sør-Odal, Vinger, Åsnes. Geografisk område: Solør fogd.Startår: 1843, sluttår:1887. URL:
- https://www.digitalarkivet.no/view/22/pe00000000390329
- Immigrant Ships Transcribers’ Guild. Ship James R Keeler for 1859.
- USAs nasjonalarkiv: Liste over amerikanske handelsskip tilknyttet New York havn 1789-1867. Arkivnummer 41, rull 36. Spesial-liste 22.
- Virginia statsarkiv: NRHP nomination for Louisiana Brigade Winter Camp.
- Vervelistene
- Fangeprotokoller Iowa State Archive: Senate Journal Memorial Resolution. Archive: 58GA, 1959
- Nekrolog: Edward Gunderson. Trykt i Mason City Globe Gazett 31. januar 1924.
- Worth County Historical Society Archive: En rekke maskinskrevne sider med biografiske detaljer om både Edvard Gundersen Østmo og Theodor Hundbu. Oversendt historiker Oskar Aanmoen, 17. februar 2020, via mail på forespørsel.
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