34th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

34th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry

Iowa state flag
Active October 15, 1862 to August 15, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Red River Campaign

The 34th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 34th Iowa Infantry was organized at Burlington, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on October 15, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on August 15, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 1081 men served in the 34th Iowa at one time or another during its existence.[1] It suffered 1 officer and 11 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 244 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 258 fatalities.[2]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil703.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/uniainf4.htm#32ndinf 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

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