1st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Iowa flag
Active	May 14, 1861 to August 20, 1861
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Wilson's Creek

The 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Contents 1 Service 2 Total strength and casualties 3 Commanders 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References

[edit] Service

The 1st Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered into Federal forces on May 14, 1861 for ninety days' service under Abraham Lincoln's first call for volunteers.

The regiment was mustered out on August 20, 1861.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 1 officer and 19 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 8 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 28 fatalities.^[1]

[edit] Commanders

• Colonel John F. Bates
• Lieutenant Colonel William H. Merritt^[2]

[edit] See also

• List of Iowa Civil War Units
• Iowa in the American Civil War

[edit] Notes

1. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#2ndinf 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/mil301.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

[edit] References

• The Civil War Archive