18th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 18th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 18th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= August 6, 1862 to July 21, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment= .68 cal. Austrian Rifles
battles
The 18th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 18th Iowa Infantry was organized at Clinton, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on August 6, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on July 20, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The 18th Iowa mustered 1127 men at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil502.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1] It suffered 2 officers and 33 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 131 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 167 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm#18th 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 Edwards
*Colonel Hugh J. Campbell [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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