Dad was right---sort of

In my first entry, I told about looking for the grave of my Great grandfather at Vicksburg. Well, Dad was right. His grandfather did fight in the Battle of Vicksburg. Only he had the wrong grandfather. And this one didn't die.

In fact he went on to write a book about his experiences in the Civil War!

History of the Twenty-Second Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry ... its campaigns in Missouri, in the siege and capture of Vicksburg, in the Texas expedition and in the Shenandoah Valley by Simeon Barnett has been quoted as a source in several other books about the Civil War including:

Vanishing Footprints: The Twenty-Second Iowa Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

Read about this book and the 22nd regiment at http://22iowa.com/Home_Page.html