The 10th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the

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Service

The 10th Iowa Infantry was organized at

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, and mustered into Federal service on September 6 (9 companies) and September 28, 1861 (remaining company). The regiment was mustered out on August 15, 1865, in

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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. 277 were wounded.

Commanders

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Nicholas PerczelBaker (1863), Volume 1 p. 366. *Colonel William E. Smallhttp://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

References

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Bibliography

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

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