38th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 38th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 38th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= December 4, 1862 to December 12, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Fort Morgan
The 38th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 38th Iowa Infantry was organized at Dubuque, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on December 4, 1862.
The regiment was consolidated with the 34th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment on December 12, 1864.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1037 men served in the 38th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil707.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 2 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 311 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 317 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf4.htm#36thinf 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 D. Henry Hughes - died of disease August 7, 1863.
*Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Hudnutt - mustered out upon consolidation of the regiment. [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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