Fighting Hawkeyes

Three Iowa Regiments in the Civil War

Prepared by Dwight D. Belles
Route 4 Box 30
Beloit, Kansas 67420

Iowa provided 75,797 white soldiers, five sailors and Marines, and 440 black soldiers in nine cavalry regiments, four light artillery batteries, 45 infantry regiments, and two infantry battalions to the Union Army.

The state lost 119 officers and 1946 enlisted men killed, 82 officer and 1393 enlisted men died of wounds, 107 officers and 8906 enlisted men died of disease, 3 officers and 114 enlisted men committed suicide, 12 enlisted men died of sunstroke, 5 enlisted men were murdered, 3 enlisted men were killed after capture, 3 enlisted men were executed by the Confederates, 3 officers and 48 enlisted men died of miscellaneous known causes, 2 officers and 137 enlisted men died of unstated causes, and 21 officers and 685 enlisted men died as prisoners of war making the total 337 officers and 13,252 enlisted men. These figures are only the dead, many times this number were wounded or maimed in battle.

This book was written to provide a history of the 4th Iowa Infantry; the 4th Iowa Light Artillery, Independent Battery; and the 29th Iowa Infantry.

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Table of Contents

4th Iowa Infantry Regiment

Unit History............................................................................................Page1

Page 2, Page 3, Page 4, Page 5, Page 6, Page 7, Page 8, Page 9, Page 10, Page 11, Page 12, Page 13, Page 14, Page 15, Page 16, Page 17

...................................................................May 3, 1861 thru Feb 16th 1862

...................................................................Feb 17th 1862 thru  Mar 6th 1862

..................................................................................................Mar 7th 1862

...................................................................Mar 8th 1862 thru  May 18th 1862

Regimental Roster.....................................................................................50

4th Iowa Light Artillery, Independent Battery

Unit History...............................................................................................64

Battery Roster............................................................................................97

29th Iowa Infantry Regiment

Unit History.............................................................................................105

Regimental Roster...................................................................................134

Glossary...................................................................................................173

Bibliography............................................................................................174

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