The
22nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an
infantry regiment
that served in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War.
Service
The 22nd
Iowa Infantry was organized at Iowa City, Iowa
and mustered in for three years of Federal service
on September 9, 1862.
The regiment was the only Union unit to breach the defenses of
Vicksburg, MS during the general assault of May 22, 1863. It was
one of only three regiments from Iowa to serve in Virginia.
The regiment was mustered out on
July 25,
1865.
Sergeant Leonidas Godley of Company E was awarded the
Medal of Honor in 1894 for his actions during
the assault on the
Railroad
Redoubt, outside Vicksburg, on May 22, 1863.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1084 men served in the 22nd Iowa at one time or another
during its existence.It suffered 6 officers and 108 enlisted men
who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer
and 135 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 250
fatalities.
Commanders
- Colonel William M. Stone, later a Governor of Iowa, and
carried the mortally wounded Lincoln out of Ford's Theatre.
- Colonel Harvey Graham
Other Notable Personnel
Maj. Ephraim White, grandfather of football star and Supreme Court
Justice
Byron "Whizzer" White.
Sgt.
Isaac Struble, attorney, and
Congressman (1883-1891).
Capt. Samuel D. Pryce, delegate to first GAR convention; author of
regimental history,
Vanishing Footprints: The Twenty-Second Iowa
Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War.
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