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Union veteran drummer Sumner Flint Hartshorn of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 12th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Iowa Colonels and Regiments: Being a History of Iowa Regiments in the War of the Rebellion; and Containing a Description of the Battles In Which They Have Fought. Des Moines: Mills and Company. pp. 51. Mackley, John (1950). Throne, Mildred (ed.). "The Civil War Diary of John Mackley". Iowa Journal of History. 48 (2): 150– 151. Wallace, Lew.
This is a list of American Civil War units from Iowa which fought in the Union Army. A total of 48 infantry regiments, nine cavalry regiments, and four artillery batteries were raised from Iowa. A total of 48 infantry regiments, nine cavalry regiments, and four artillery batteries were raised from Iowa.
Their names — veterans spanning the Civil War to the Vietnam War — echoed through the nave in a long overdue tribute. Until now, the remains of 20 veterans and five spouses were unclaimed.
The Iowa legislature had passed a law in 1884 that allowed counties to levy a tax to support building G.A.R. memorials. Captain Rufus S. Benson, a local state representative, had the law amended in 1886 so that it allowed for the construction of a memorial hall, as the local G.A.R. chapter wanted it to be a place where they could meet.
A total of 1136 men served in the 25th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [2] It suffered 2 officers and 63 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 207 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 274 fatalities.
The 2nd Iowa Cavalry was recruited in the following counties and organized at Davenport, Iowa they mustered in at Camp Joe Holt for three years of Federal service between August 30 and September 28, 1861. Company A - Muscatine County; Company B - Marshall County; Company C - Scott County; Company D - Polk County; Company E - Scott County
This article incorporates text from Iowa and the rebellion: A history of the troops furnished by the state of Iowa to the volunteer armies of the Union, which conquered the great Southern Rebellion of 1861-5, by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll, a publication from 1866, now in the public domain in the United States.
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