6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry


caption=Iowa flag
dates= July 17, 1861 to July 21, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Corinth
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Chattanooga
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville

The 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 6th Iowa Infantry was organized at Burlington, Iowa and mustered into Federal forces on July 17, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on July 21, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 8 officers and 144 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 126 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 280 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#6th 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 Adair McDowell
*Colonel John M. Corse [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil308.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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