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Iowa 2nd Brig.;

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In the Iowa 2nd Brig., the 25th Infantry under Col. George A. Stone suffered 37 reported casualties in the assault on May 22, 1863, with 5 killed, 27 wounded, and 5 missing, and no casualties were reported during the siege; the regiment’s aggregate reported casualties during the campaign and siege remained 37. The 31st Infantry under Col. William Smyth and Maj. Theodore Stimming suffered 1 wounded in a skirmish on Fourteen Mile Creek on May 12, 1863, then 22 casualties in the assault on May 22, with 3 killed and 19 wounded, and no casualties were reported during the siege; the regiment’s aggregate reported casualties during the campaign and siege were 23, with 3 killed and 20 wounded.
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