. 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 . llo County and C from Jasper County. Nowthat we are fully organized as a Regiment we will referto that organization only as we refer to each Companyby letter. Harvey Graham having been made Major of the Reg-iment, the officers of Company A were promoted accord-ingly, except that S. C. Jones, 3rd Corporal, was madefirst Sergeant. We received our arms and accouterments, with all theparaphernalia of war, le
. 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 . llo County and C from Jasper County. Nowthat we are fully organized as a Regiment we will referto that organization only as we refer to each Companyby letter. Harvey Graham having been made Major of the Reg-iment, the officers of Company A were promoted accord-ingly, except that S. C. Jones, 3rd Corporal, was madefirst Sergeant. We received our arms and accouterments, with all theparaphernalia of war, leather collars, epaulets, we were a motley looking crowd. Our uni-forms were mostly ridiculous misfits, some had to givetheir pants two or three rolls at the heels, others hadshirts much too large which were, therefore, baggy,while others had to place paper in their hats so theywould not slip down over their ears. The epaulets andleather collars were never worn. The boys were not long in the service until they couldtrim their clothing and repair them, making them quiterespectably fitting garments. I can now recall manyof the boys who could change the straight pocket in the. Lieut. Col. E. G. WhiteCol. W. M. Stone Col. H. GrahamMaj. J. H. Gearkee IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 9 pants to the more modern style, or when the kneewould wear thread bare could cut the leg off and turn theback to the front, and could use other devices to maketheir clothes last longer, and look more genteel. Orders came at last for us to go to the front. Ac-cordingly on the 15 th of September, we pulled out ofCamp Pope and boarded a train for Davenport, andthence south, aboard the boat, Metropolitan. Weawoke this morning September 16, at a little town abovethe Rapids called Montrose, landed from the boat, andtook the cars for Keokuk. This morning September 17th, we feel as if we werewithout form or void. We passed a miserably coldand wet night. Officers sought shelter somewhere andthe men in broke
Size: 1348px × 1854px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidreminiscencesoft02jone
