3rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry


caption=Iowa flag
dates= June 8, 1861 to November 4, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Shiloh
Battle of the Hatchie
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Jackson
Red River Campaign
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta

The 3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 3rd Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered into Federal forces on June 8, 1861.

The regiment was consolidated into a battalion of three companies in July, 1864 after those members of the regiment who did not reenlist mustered out and the survivors were transferred to 2nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry as Companies "A," "F," and "I" on November 4, 1864.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 119 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 122 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 249 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#3rd 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 Nelson G. Williams
*Lieutenant Colonel John Scott [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil304.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]