6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
- 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= January 31, 1863 to October 17, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
battles=
The 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 6th Iowa Cavalry was mustered into Federal service at Davenport, Iowa for a three year enlistment between January 31 to March 5, 1863.
The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on October 17, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 1420 men served in the 6th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil606.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 1 officer and 21 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 74 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 97 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniacav.htm#6thcav 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 David S. Wilson
*Colonel Samuel M. Pollock [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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