8th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 8th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 8th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= August 31, 1861 to April 20, 1866
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Corinth
Siege of Vicksburg
Red River Campaign
The 8th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 8th Iowa Infantry was organized at Davenport, Iowa and mustered into Federal service between August 31 and September 4, 1861. [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]
The regiment was mustered out on April 20, 1866.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment lost 4 officers and 98 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 170 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 276 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#8th 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 Frederick Steele
*Colonel James L. Geddes [Logan 8th Iowa]
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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