22nd Maine Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War

Ned Smith is a military veteran and a long time educator who teaches college history courses in Bangor, Maine.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Preface      Introduction      1. Maine and Louisiana: Two States in a House Curiously Divided      2. The Raising of a Maine Regiment      3. Francis Ireland and the Boys from Dexter      4. Leaving Maine      5. New Camps, New Sights      6. The 22nd Settles in to Camp Life      7. Heading South: Banks’ Expedition Sails for New Orleans and the Lower Mississippi      8. The Reoccupation of Baton Rouge      9. At Baton Rouge: Balmy Breezes and Deadly Diseases      10. More Sickness, Surviving the Cure, Longing for Home      11. The First Advance Toward Port Hudson      12. The Men of the 22nd “See the Animal”      13. New Iberia and St. Martinville: A Slave Uprising; an Escort for an Ailing Rebel Officer      14. No Spring Mustering Out      15. On to Port Hudson      16. Assault on Port Hudson      17. The Fall of Port Hudson, Up the Mississippi and Home      Appendix A: Raising the Regiments      Appendix B: Causes of Death in the Different Theaters of War      Appendix C: Roster of the Twenty-Second Regiment      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

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