15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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15th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Iowa state flag
Active February 22, 1862 to July 24, 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 15th 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 15th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on February 22, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 24, 1865.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

The 15th Iowa mustered a total of 1,926 men over the span of its existence.[1] It suffered 8 officers and 118 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 260 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 387 fatalities.[2]

[edit] Commanders

  • Colonel Hugh T. Reid
  • Colonel William W. Belknap[3]


[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil407.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#15th 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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