39th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 39th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 39th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= November 24, 1862 to August 2, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Resaca
Battle of Allatoona
March to the Sea
The 39th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 39th Iowa Infantry was organized at Des Moines and Davenport, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on November 24, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on August 2, 1864.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1064 men served in the 39th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil708.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 58 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 134 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 200 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf4.htm#39thinf 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 Henry J. B. Cummings [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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