26th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 26th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 26th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= September 30, 1862 to June 6, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Assault on Fort Hindman
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
March to the Sea
The 26th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 26th Iowa Infantry was organized at Clinton, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on September 30, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on June 6, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 965 men served in the 26th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil510.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 70 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 213 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 293 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 Milo Smith [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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