2nd Iowa Regiment
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The 2nd Iowa Regiment was an infantry regiment that participated in the American Civil War. Samuel Curtis was a leader in this unit.
The 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment fought throughout the course of the war. It was organized in the spring of 1861 in Keokuk, Iowa, with the regiment finally mustered out in July 1865 in Louisville, Kentucky. The soldiers of the 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment enlisted for three-year terms, with many soldiers fighting until the end of the war.
Highlights of the service of this regiment include distinguished actions at the Battle of Fort Donelson and at the Battle of Shiloh, where about 80 members of the regiment were casualties, either dead or wounded. The regiment fought in the subsequent Battle of Corinth and later in the Atlanta Campaign, including at the Battle of Atlanta, continuing on to South Carolina and to Goldsboro, North Carolina, in the Carolinas Campaign. With the surrender of the Confederate States Army under Joseph E. Johnston, the 2nd Iowa traveled to Washington, D.C., for the Grand Review of the Armies of the Union on May 23-24, 1865.
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