11th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

11th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Active September 28, 1861 – July 15, 1865
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Size Regiment
Engagements

American Civil War

Disbanded July 15, 1865
Commanders
Colonel Abraham M. Hare
Colonel Colonel William Hall
Colonel John C. Abercrombie[1]

The 11th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 11th Iowa Infantry was organized at Davenport, Iowa and mustered into Federal service between September 28 and October 18, 1861. The regiment was mustered out on July 15, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Total enrollment was 1297. The regiment lost 5 officers and 86 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 166 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 259 fatalities.[2] 234 were wounded.

References

  1. http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil403.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#11th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
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