7th Iowa Infantry Regiment

7th Iowa Infantry Regiment
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Active	July 24, 1861, to July 12, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Belmont Fort Henry Fort Donelson Battle of Shiloh Battle of Corinth Battle of Resaca Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Battle of Atlanta March to the Sea Battle of Bentonville

The 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 7th Iowa Infantry was organized at Burlington, Iowa and assembled into Federal service between July 24 and August 4, 1861.

The regiment was sent out on July 12, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

Unit strength was 1552. The regiment lost 7 officers and 134 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 160 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 305 fatalities.[1] 354 were wounded.

Commanders

Elliott Warren Rice

• Colonel Jacob Gartner Lauman
• Colonel Elliott W. Rice[2]
• Brevet Colonel James Corner Parrot

See also

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

Notes

1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#7th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
2. http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil309.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

References

• The Civil War Archive