Vanishing footprints The Twenty-second Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
Book - 2008
Never before published, Samuel Pryce's history of the "Johnson County Regiment" is a wide-ranging tale of the men he served with-- and whom he served so well as regimental adjutant. Pryce tells an unforgettable story, from the common soldier's ground-level perspective, of how a courageous band of midwesterners gathered, fought, lived and died under the "starry banner"--P. [4] of cover.
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- Published
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Iowa City, Iowa :
Camp Pope Bookshop
2008.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- 249 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (231-236) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781929919147
- The 22nd Iowa: comrades remembered
- Mustered into the United States service and off to war
- The first camp at Rolla, Phelps County, Mo.
- Campaign in Southern Missouri : Thomasville, Pilot Knob, and St. Genevieve
- Down the Mississippi to join Grant and the Battle of Port Gibson
- Champion Hills, Big Black River Bridge, and the approach to Vicksburg
- Assault upon Vicksburg, May 22nd, 1863
- The siege and surrender of Vicksburg
- The capture of Jackson, Miss. and the campaign in the Teche Valley, La.
- Expedition to Texas and the end of the Red River Campaign
- Ocean voyage to the Atlantic seaboard and the Battle of Winchester, Va.
- The Battles of Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, Va.
- Ocean voyage to Savannah, Ga., garrison duty, muster-out, and return to Iowa.