13th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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13th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Iowa state flag
Active October 18, 1861 to July 21, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Battle of Shiloh
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 Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville

The 13th 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 13th Iowa Infantry was organized at Davenport, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service between October 18 and November 2, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 21, 1865.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

The 13th Iowa mustered 1788 men at one time or another during its existence.[1] It suffered 5 officers and 114 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 205 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 328 fatalities.[2]

[edit] Commanders

  • Colonel Marcellus M. Crocker
  • Colonel John Shane[3]


[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil405.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
  2. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm#13th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  3. ^ 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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