7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry

7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry


caption=Iowa state flag
dates= April 27, 1863 to June 22, 1866
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
battles=

The 7th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 7th Iowa Cavalry was mustered into Federal service at Davenport, Iowa for a three year enlistment between April 27 to July 13, 1863.

The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on June 22, 1866.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 1420 men served in the 7th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil607.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#7thcav 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 Samuel W. Summers
*Colonel Herman H. Heath [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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