20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 20th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 20th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= August 25, 1862 to July 8, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment= .577 cal. Enfield Rifles
battles=Battle of Prairie Grove
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Sterling's Plantation
Siege of Fort Morgan
The 20th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 20th Iowa Infantry was organized at Clinton, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on August 25, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on July 8, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The 20th Iowa mustered 1026 men at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil504.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 1 officer and 13 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 157 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 173 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf3.htm#20thinf 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 McE. Dye [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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