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Title: Reminiscences of the Twenty-second Iowa volunteer infantry, giving its organization, marches, skirmishes, battles, and sieges, as taken from the diary of Lieutenant S.C. Jones of Company A
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Jones, S. C. (Samuel Calvin), 1838-1932
Subjects: Iowa infantry. 22d regt., 1862-1865. (from old catalog) United States -- History Civil war, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Ia. inf. 22d. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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it is alsocalled and that there was fighting in front. It turnedout to be a few Confederate cavalry who ventured tooclose to our advanced pickets, creating a little disturb-ance. The Confederates were soon scattered and outof reach of bullets. We are short on rations since we came to this place.We lived on corn meal that we ground on a peculiarmill that they had here. Each Company in its turnsent a squad or detail of men, with an officer, to grindcorn for the Company, two and one-half gallons to thir-ty-six men, which was not enough to satisfy us. Parch-ed corn was eaten to satisfy the deficiency. The capac-ity of the mill was not great enough to do any better forthe number of men depending upon it for a subsistance.Rumors that we would soon have rations in abundancewere heard so often, that finally no credit was given tothem. We had plenty of nice fresh beef, and we couldget some fresh vegetables. On the 10th, an order came for a detail to go and help unload boats filled with ra-ise)
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Lieut. J. R. ChandlerLieut. J. A. Boarts Lieut. D. W. HexdersonLieut. N. C. Messenger IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 57 tions. Our long fast had come to an end. There wasone good qualification in General Fitz Henry Warren,he would feed and clothe the men under him, if it werepossible to get the means. Other exciting incidents were soon to draw our atten-tion. We could see daily on the far distant hills, theConfederate cavalry, watching our every movement.On the 12th, when we were on brigade drill, we receivedan order to prepare for action. The Confederates wereadvancing on us in three separate columns. One col-umn marching towards us, one towards Old Town, anda center column. We could see them in the distance,but could not estimate their number. A line of bat-tle was at once formed, with batteries in position, andthey soon began to play on the head of the advancingConfederate column. Sharp skirmishing was also goingon in front. Companies A and F were sent out onthe skirmish line to relieve t

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