41st Battalion Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 41st Battalion Iowa Volunteer Infantry


caption=Iowa state flag
dates= November 6, 1861 to April, 1863
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Siege of Vicksburg

The 41st Battalion Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry battalion that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 41st Iowa Infantry was organized as Companies A, B, and C of the 14th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regimentat Davenport, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on November 6, 1861. These three companies were immediately detached and sent to Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, arriving there on December 5, 1861. The companies were permanently detached from the 14th Iowa on September 18, 1862, where they remained until May 1863. At one time, the state of Iowa intended to use these companies as the nucleus of a 41st Iowa Regiment, but this plan was abandoned.

The battalion was transferred to the 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in April 1863.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 293 men served in the 41st Iowa Battalion at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil710.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 died of disease, for a total of 2 fatalities. [Logan, "Roster"]

Commanders

*Major John Pattee [Logan, "Roster"]

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]