1st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 1st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa flag
dates= May 14, 1861 to August 20, 1861
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Wilson's Creek
The 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 1st Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered into Federal forces on May 14, 1861 for ninety days' service under Abraham Lincoln's first call for volunteers.
The regiment was mustered out on August 20, 1861.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 1 officer and 19 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 8 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 28 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#2ndinf The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel John F. Bates
*Lieutenant Colonel William H. Merritt [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil301.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1]
ee also
*List of Iowa Civil War Units
*Iowa in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]
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