10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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10th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Iowa state flag
Active September 6, 1861 to August 15, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Battle of Iuka
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Raymond
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Chattanooga
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville

The 10th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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[edit] Service

The 10th Iowa Infantry was organized at Iowa City, Iowa and Montezuma, Iowa, and mustered into Federal service between September 6 and October 11, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on August 15, 1865 in Little Rock, Arkansas.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 6 officers and 95 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 134 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 235 fatalities.[1]

[edit] Commanders

  • Colonel Nicholas Perczel
  • ColonelWilliam E. Small[2]

[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm#10th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  2. ^ http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil402.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

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