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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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e pit extending down the hill towards FortBeauregard. A detail of negroes was worked duringthe daytime. We had a rifle pit dug in front, and par-allel with our camp. The Battery had thrown upbreastworks to protect them from the solid shot fromthe rebel fort. Sometimes when we were at work in therifle pits in front, the Confederates began shelling us,then our Battery would fire at them until they werecompelled to cease. During these fusillades the shotand shell passed over us, and sometimes when the ar-tillery men would cut their fuse too short, we would getthe benefit of the bursting shell. It did not happen thusoften. There was an armistice and the dead near thefort were buried and those not able to move werecared for. The very sick and wounded were sent northas fast as they could be moved. On June 16th, 1863, we drew two months pay. Mostof the men sent their money home. Adams ExpressCompany followed the army quite closely and could berehed upon to carry money safely. While there was
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Capt. Geo. W. ClarkLieut. W. H. Needham Capt. A. B. CreeCapt. D. J. Davis IOWA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 41 always considerable card playing in the camp it wasalmost all for pastime. But little reading matter couldbe obtamed, save a few enterprising dailies Homeletter-wntmg was one of the chief pastimes. Manywho could not write at enlistment, through the desireto write their own letters home became good penmenNearly every soldier carried a Bible. It was not an un-common thing for It to be almost an impossibility to ^eta deck of cards when we would go into camp unless thesutler was m our immediate locality. I have seen theground strewn with cards when we would leave a campwhere we had remained sometime. My impression isthat few wanted to own and carry cards. They werean excellent pastime when on picket duty during thedaytime. A game called Xhuck Luck was frequentlyplayed. This was a game to lose money. During thesiege an order was issued to arrest those who were en-gaged m the game. It was en

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