5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 5th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 5th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa flag
dates= July 15, 1861 to August 8, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Siege of Corinth
Battle of Iuka
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Chattanooga
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
The 5th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 5th Iowa Infantry was organized at Burlington, Iowa and mustered into Federal forces on July 15, 1861.
The regiment was amalgamated with the 5th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry on August 8, 1864.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 9 officers and 108 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 131 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 250 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#5th 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 William H. Worthington
*Colonel Charles L. Matthies [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil307.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1]
*Lieutenant Colonel Ezekiel S. Sampson
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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