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The 13th Iowa Infantry was organized at Davenport, Iowa, and mustered in for three years of Federal service between October 18 and November 2, 1861. Its troops came primarily from the Iowa counties of Linn, Jasper, Marion, Lucas, Keokuk, Scott, Polk, Benton, Marshall and Washington. [1] The regiment was mustered out on July 21, 1865.
Painting depicting U.S. soldiers from 1st Battalion, 13th Infantry charging Confederate lines at Vicksburg, Mississippi on 19 May 1863, losing 43 percent of their men, but managing to fight its colors up to top.
For the third campaign, known as the "Wake Up, America" rally, beginning on April 27, 1918, 400,000 Boy Scouts embarked on a door to window program selling Liberty Bonds as well as war stamps. [3] At the end of the five campaigns, the Boy Scouts raised $354,859,262 in bond subscriptions and $43,043,698 in war stamps. [23]
Merle Hay memorial boulder in Des Moines, Iowa Merle David Hay (July 20, 1896 – November 3, 1917) was the first Iowa serviceman and perhaps the first American serviceman to die in World War I , along with Corporal James Bethel Gresham of Evansville, Indiana and Thomas Enright of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .
He repeatedly warned that the U.S. would not tolerate unrestricted submarine warfare, in violation of international law. [ 4 ] By the time the United States of America entered the war in 1917—three years after the first shots were fired—several Americans had already gone to fight as pilots by joining the Royal Flying Corps .
The United States Guards (USG) was a lightly armed, all-infantry military force maintained by the United States from 1917 to 1919. Tasked with an internal security and territorial defense mission within the Zone of the Interior, it was used to protect critical infrastructure and suppress civil unrest during World War I.
The 133rd Infantry arrived at the port of New York on 24 January 1919 on the USS General G. W. Goethals, and was demobilized 18 February 1919 at Camp Grant, Illinois.It was reconstituted in the National Guard in 1921, assigned to the 34th Division, and allotted to the state of Iowa.
Young boys often took part in battles during early modern warfare. When Napoleon was faced with invasion by a massive Allied force in 1814 he conscripted many teenagers for his armies. Orphans of the Imperial Guard fought in the Netherlands with Marshal MacDonald and were between the ages of 14 and 17. [13]