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 arms, equipment and the blockade of the river. Gettysburg on our part was a strictly defensive battle, which left Lee’s army able to continue the war nearly two years. Vicksburg annihilated all power of that army for further warfare. No State in the Union made greater contributions of gallant soldiers to win this unparalleled victory than Iowa. No soldiers in that victorious army won more undying fame than the fourteen who carried muskets in an Iowa regiment and alone were able to scale the enemy’s works on the day of the desperate assault.

After the surrender, the Twenty-second Iowa joined the army operating against Jackson, and participated in the arduous labors of that campaign. In August the regiment was sent to Carrollton, where it remained in camp until September, when it joined the army sent west on the Bayou Teche expedition, which operated in western Louisiana until the middle of November, when it returned to Algiers. From there it was sent to Texas. Early in January, 1864, the regiment, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Graham, was sent by steamer to Indianola, where it went into winter quarters with the First Brigade, now under command of General Fitz-Henry Warren. Here, under the strict discipline of that accomplished officer, the brigade was brought up to a high standard of efficiency. The Twenty-second lost six men here, captured while on duty. Colonel Stone had resigned in August, 1863, and Lieutenant-Colonel Graham was promoted to colonel May 4, 1864. Early in July the regiment was assigned to the Second Brigade of the Second Division of the Nineteenth Corps, commanded by General Emory, and sent by ocean steamer to Fortress Monroe, and joined there the army under General Butler, then operating on the James River. About the middle of August it was sent to General Sheridan’s army in the Shenandoah Valley. On the 19th of September was fought the Battle of Winchester. The Twenty-second was in General Molineaux’s Brigade and was stationed on the left of the Nineteenth