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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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Iowa, haddress parade. We remained in camp here until the16th. Company F left us here, it went off on thegunboat, Benton. While here General Canby visitedus, it is said he will take command of the troops here.We were ordered on our boat, the Colonel Cowls, at 4p. m. We proceed up the Achafalaya river. GeneralWarren and staff are still with us on this boat. Weboys begin to think he is very fond of Iowa men. Maythe 17th. We are still not far from the mouth of RedRiver, at a very large plantation. There are as manyas twenty-six transports here besides quite a number ofgunboats. The transports are loaded with Commissary E. J. C. DealerThe Twenty-second Iowa Association made a wise choice whenit selected Comrade E. J. C. Bealer to represent it on the Vicks-burg Park Commission. There was great labor and difficulty ingetting the Markers and Tablets where the Regiment was entitledto have them. At present everything is quite satisfactory forwhich Mr. Bealer has the gratitude of his comrades.
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Lieut. R. W. DavisCorpl E. J. C. Bealer Lieut. O. P. HullLieut. J. E. Griffith IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 69 and sanitary goods for the sick and wounded soldiers.There are a great many stragglers and a great numberof negroes. There are representatives from nearlyevery regiment of the army of Red River. We movedup the river at 4 p. m. to Simmesport. May 18th. Immediately after reaching this placewe disembarked and commenced assisting in the con-struction of a bridge across the river. By placing thetransports side by side, with their gang plank laid acrosstheir bows, we soon had a bridge constructed ready forGeneral Banks army to cross. It consists of nineteenlarge transports, some of them are the Metropolitan,Colonel Cowls, Ohio Bell, Star Light, Black Hawk,Madison, South Western, Rob Roy, Sally Robinson.The army commenced crossing as soon as the bridge wasready. Banks army was vigorously pressed by theenemy, and only General A. J. Smiths troops stood be-tween them and destruction. On the

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