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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.
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.
The first Iowa Cavalry was organized at Davenport, Iowa in August and September 1861 and mustered in for three years of Federal service. Unusually for a Union cavalry regiment, the members of the regiment provided their own horses and equipment. The first Iowa was the first three-year cavalry regiment accepted for Federal service during the war.
Sophronia Smith Hunt was an American woman who disguised herself as a man and secretly served as a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [1] Her first soldier husband died of wounds received at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. They served in Company C of the 29th Iowa Infantry Regiment. The regiment was mustered out on August 10 ...
The Politics of Iowa during the Civil War and Reconstruction (1911) Hofsommer, Don L. Steel Trails Of Hawkeyeland: Iowa's Railroad Experience (2005) Johnson, Russell L. Warriors into Workers: The Civil War and the Formation of the Urban-Industrial Society in a Northern City (2003) About Dubuque; Lyftogt, Kenneth L. Iowa and the Civil War.
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.
The 9th Iowa Infantry was organized at Dubuque, Iowa and mustered into Federal service on September 24, 1861. The Honorable William Vandever, Representative from the 2nd Congressional District, Iowa, was authorized by President Lincoln to organize this regiment from the counties in his district, and he was commissioned by Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood as its first Colonel. [1]
From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Lieutenant Thomas C. Bird of Co. C, 31st Iowa Infantry Regiment. The 31st Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.