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.
Listed as one of Fox's "Fighting 300 Regiments."
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