23rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 23rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 23rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= September 19, 1862 to July 26, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Assault on Fort Blakely
The 23rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 23rd Iowa Infantry was organized at Des Moines, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on September 19, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on July 26, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1070 men served in the 23rd Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil507.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 6 officers and 69 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 208 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 284 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf3.htm#22ndinf 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 Dewey
*Colonel William H. Kinsman
*Colonel Samuel L. Glasgow [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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