26th Iowa Infantry Regiment

The 26th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

26th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Iowa state flag
ActiveSeptember 30, 1862, to June 6, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
EngagementsAmerican Civil War

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The 26th Iowa Infantry was organized at Clinton, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on September 30, 1862. The regiment was a part of the 3rd brigade, 1st division, XV Corps (Union Army).[1]

The regiment was mustered out on June 6, 1865.

Total strength and casualties edit

A total of 965 men served in the 26th Iowa at one time or another during its existence.[2] It suffered 6 officers and 70 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 213 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 293 fatalities.[3]

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Notes edit

  1. ^ "Iowa Civil War Monuments".
  2. ^ http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil510.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
  3. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf3.htm#22ndinf The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  4. ^ 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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