37th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

37th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 37th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry


caption=Iowa state flag
dates= December 15, 1862 to May 24, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=

The 37th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed the "Graybeard Regiment," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 37th Iowa Infantry was organized at Muscatine, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on December 15, 1862. The regiment was unique in that it was composed entirely of men not liable for military service. All men enlisted had to be at least 45 years old. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil705.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 spent most of its service guarding prinsoner of war camps and supply trains.

The regiment was mustered out on May 24, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 1041 men served in the 37th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [ Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1] It suffered 3 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 145 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 148 fatalities. [ Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1]

Commanders

*Colonel George W. Kincaid [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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