29th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 29th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 29th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= December 1, 1862 to August 10, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=
The 29th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 29th Iowa Infantry was organized at Council Bluffs, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on December 1, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on August 10, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1485 men served in the 29th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil512.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 42 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 266 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 310 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 Thomas H. Benton, Jr. [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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