1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
- 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= July 30, 1861 to March 16, 1866
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment= Sharps Carbine, Saber
battles= Battle of Prairie Grove
The 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The first Iowa Cavalry was organized at Davenport, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service between July 30, and September 12, 1862. Unusually for a Union cavalry regiment, the members of the regiment provided their own horses and equipment. The first Iowa was the first three year cavalry regiment accepted for Federal service during the war.
The regiment was mustered out on February 15, 1866 and discharged for state service on March 16, 1866.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 2115 men served in the 1st Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil601.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 officers and 56 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 233 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 293 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniacav.htm#1stcav 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 Fitz Henry Warren
*Colonel James O. Gower
*Colonel Anderson
*Lieutenant Colonel Alexander G. McQueen [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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