10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

10th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Active September 6, 1861–August 15, 1865
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Engagements

American Civil War

Disbanded August 15, 1865
Insignia
Colonel Nicholas Perczel[1]

The 10th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[2]

Service

The 10th Iowa Infantry was organized at Iowa City, Iowa, and Montezuma, Iowa, and mustered into Federal service on September 6 (9 companies)[2] and September 28, 1861 (remaining company).[2] The regiment was mustered out on August 15, 1865, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Total strength and casualties

Total enrollment was 1319. The regiment lost 6 officers and 95 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 134 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 235 fatalities.[3] 277 were wounded.

Commanders

References

  1. Baker (1863), Volume 1 p. 366.
  2. 1 2 3 Lieutenant Colonel William H. Silsby (March 30, 1865). "Regimental History of the 10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry". Headquarters of the 10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
  3. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm#10th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  4. http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil402.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

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