September 19, 1864 – Alfred B. Cree of Iowa City was wounded while serving as a Captain with the 22nd Iowa Infantry in Virginia. This was the second of three wounds Cree received as he valiantly served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Over the nearly three years of service, the 22nd Iowa Infantry lost six officers and one-hundred-and eight enlisted men in battle, and one officer and one-hundred-and-thirty-five enlisted men by disease. While his life was spared, A.B. Cree didn’t escape the dangers of war. He was first wounded at Vicksburg (May 1863), wounded again – in the right shoulder – on September 19, 1864, at Winchester, Virginia, and severely wounded in the right leg one month later – on October 19, at Cedar Creek, Virginia. Fortunately, unlike so many others, Captain Cree survived it all, returning home to Iowa City in the late summer of 1865.

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