2nd Iowa Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 2nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry


caption=Iowa flag
dates= May 27, 1861 to July 20, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
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The 2nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 2nd Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered into Federal service on May 27, 1861. Among its early officers was Marcellus M. Crocker, who would later rise to brigadier general. One of the privates, Hiram Scofield of Company H, would finish the war as a brevet brigadier general.

The 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment fought throughout the course of the war. The soldiers of the 2nd Iowa Infantry Regiment enlisted for three-year terms, with many soldiers fighting until the end of the war. Samuel Curtis was a leader in this unit.

Highlights of the service of this regiment include distinguished actions at the Battle of Fort Donelson and at the Battle of Shiloh, where about 80 members of the regiment were casualties, either dead or wounded. The regiment fought in the subsequent Battle of Corinth and later in the Atlanta Campaign, including at the Battle of Atlanta, continuing on to South Carolina and to Goldsboro, North Carolina, in the Carolinas Campaign. With the surrender of the Confederate States Army under Joseph E. Johnston, the 2nd Iowa traveled to Washington, D.C., for the Grand Review of the Armies of the Union on May 23-24, 1865. [ancestry.com, referring to Historical Data Systems Inc. P.O. Box 196 Kingston, MA 02364, Copyright 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000. ]

The regiment was mustered out on July 12, 1865 and discharged at Davenport, Iowa on July 20, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 12 officers and 108 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 159 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 283 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#2ndinf The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]

Commanders

*Colonel Samuel R. Curtis
*Colonel J.M. Tuttle
*Lieutenant Colonel later Colonel James Baker - killed in action at the Battle of Corinth
*Major later Colonel James Weaver [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil302.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1]

ee also

*List of Iowa Civil War Units
*Iowa in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]