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Title: Iowa and the rebellion. A history of the troops furnished by the state of Iowa to the volunteer armies of the Union, which conquered the great Southern Rebellion of 1861-5
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Ingersoll, Lurton Dunham
Subjects: Iowa -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories Iowa Iowa -- Militia
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co. Dubuque, B.M. Harger (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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edged captain of the age, those ofIowa won the most conspicuous renown. No troops bore a more prominentpart at Port Gibson than Colonel Stones Brigade, h was General M. M.Crocker who stormed the works of Jackson, where our Seventeenth regi-ment surpassed all others in daring. Notroop- in Boveys Division fought more bravely, or more tenaciously, than our Twenty-Ioiiilh and Twenty eighth regiments at Champion Bills, where Crocker again rushed in to theaid of hard pressed friends, and like the black knight in (vanhoe, savedthe day by vigor almost superhuman. At the Black River Bridge, ourTwenty-first regiment was only surpassed by our Twenty-third, whosebravery and sacrifices can never be forgotten while courage continues to bea virtue. What soldiers but those of (owa entered the works of Vioksburgon tin assault of the 22d ? When the battle was over, only our dead found within those works. In tiii- campaign, all the Iowa regiments engaged suffered less or more TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY. 479
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8IEGE OF VICK8BURG. 481 IOWA AND THE REBELLION. severely, ana all those which took part in the assault had many slain andwounded. The Twenty-second lost during the campaign about twohundred.2 Colonel Stone, as we have seen, was wounded during theassault, and Lieutenant-Colonel Graham captured. Captain Gcarkee, andLieutenants Remick and Mulling were severely wounded in the same action. The regiment marched against Jackson Immediately after the surrenderof Vicksburg, and took honorable part in that campaign of great laborsand of great results. Captain Cree, of Company F, was specially men-tioned for gallant conduct on the skirmish line, on the 9th. Colonel Stone,who had been meanwhile nominated for Governor by the dominant partyof the State, resumed command of tbe regiment in front of Jackson, andwas soon placed in command of the brigade. His command reachedVicksburg on its return from the Jackson campaign in the latter part ofJuly. He soon afterwards resigned, and returned to Iowa, and

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