. Reminiscences of the Twenty-second Iowa volunteer infantry, giving its organization, marches, skirmishes, battles, and sieges, as taken from the diary of Lieutenant Jones of Company A . J. C. SwiTZER, President. Brevet Lieut. C. H. Bane Drummer C, Frank Peabody Sutler, Charles Evans CHAPTER XVI On board the Leesburg. We count ourselves veryfortunate that we were selected for this duty, as we arealwa3^s under cover and do not have any severe guardduty. On May 27th, we had for passengers, among others,one hundred paroled Confederate prisoners on theirway to Savannah. We carry our freight
. Reminiscences of the Twenty-second Iowa volunteer infantry, giving its organization, marches, skirmishes, battles, and sieges, as taken from the diary of Lieutenant Jones of Company A . J. C. SwiTZER, President. Brevet Lieut. C. H. Bane Drummer C, Frank Peabody Sutler, Charles Evans CHAPTER XVI On board the Leesburg. We count ourselves veryfortunate that we were selected for this duty, as we arealwa3^s under cover and do not have any severe guardduty. On May 27th, we had for passengers, among others,one hundred paroled Confederate prisoners on theirway to Savannah. We carry our freight in bargeshitched on each side of our boat. It consist generallyof cotton on the dow^n trip and forage on the returntrip. We reached Savannah the 28th, 2:30 p. m., dis-posed of our barges at the lower wharf, came back andlet off our passengers. We (the guard) are havingwhat the boys call a Soft Snap. May 29th. I made requisitions for provisions andclothing for the guard under me, and had them broughtto the boat and issued to the men. Took a walkthrough the city of Savannah I could not see any dam-age done to the city by wars desolation, but I did seeplenty of men, women, and children wi
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