10th Iowa Infantry Regiment

10th Iowa Infantry Regiment
10th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Active	September 6, 1861–August 15, 1865
Disbanded	August 15, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Engagements	American Civil War Battle of Iuka; Battle of Corinth; Battle of Port Gibson; Battle of Raymond; Battle of Champion Hill; Battle of Big Black River Bridge; Siege of Vicksburg; Battle of Chattanooga; March to the Sea; Battle of Bentonville;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Col. Nicholas Perczel

The 10th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.^[1]

Service

The 10th Iowa Infantry was organized at Iowa City, Iowa, and Montezuma, Iowa, and mustered into Federal service on September 6 (9 companies)^[1] and September 28, 1861 (remaining company).^[1] The regiment was mustered out on August 15, 1865, in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Total strength and casualties

Total enrollment was 1319. The regiment lost 6 officers and 95 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 134 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 235 fatalities.^[2] 277 were wounded.

Commanders

Colonel Nicholas Perczel^[3]
Colonel William E. Small^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Lieutenant Colonel William H. Silsby (March 30, 1865). "Regimental History of the 10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry". Headquarters of the 10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Retrieved March 16, 2010.
^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm#10th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
^ Baker (1863), Volume 1 p. 366.
^ http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil402.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

Bibliography

Baker, Nathaniel B. (1863). The Report of The Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of Iowa. Volume 1. F.W. Palmer. State Printer. Des Moines, Iowa.