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19th Iowa Infantry Regiment

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19th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
Iowa state flag
ActiveAugust 25, 1862, to July 10, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
EngagementsBattle of Prairie Grove
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Sterling's Plantation
Battle of Spanish Fort
Battle of Fort Blakeley

The 19th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 19th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on August 25, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 10, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The 19th Iowa mustered 1132 men at one time or another during its existence.[1] It suffered 6 officers and 86 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 98 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 192 fatalities.[2]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil503.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#19th 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
  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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