27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 27th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 27th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= October 3, 1862 to August 8, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=Red River Campaign
Battle of Pleasant Hill
Battle of Nashville
The 27th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 27th Iowa Infantry was organized at Dubuque, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on October 3, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on August 8, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1172 men served in the 27th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil511.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 23 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 167 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 193 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 James I. Gilbert
*Lieutenant Colonel Jed Lake [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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