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Second Iowa Infantry.
Sweeny's Brigade —
Dodge's Division--Sixteenth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 2 | | 2 | | | | 17 |
| Company | A | | 12 | 12 | | 11 | 11 | 117 |
| | B | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 14 | 14 | 160 |
| | C | 3 | 12 | 15 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 115 |
| | D | | 9 | 9 | | 12 | 12 | 129 |
| | E | 1 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 127 |
| | F | 2 | 15 | 17 | 1 | 21 | 22 | 107 |
| | G | | 13 | 13 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 151 |
| | H | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 19 | 19 | 120 |
| | I | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 11 | 11 | 133 |
| | K | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 16 | 16 | 115 |
| Totals | 12 | 108 | 120 | 4 | 159 | 163 | 1,291 |
Total of killed and wounded, 465; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 16.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fort Donelson, Tenn. | 54 | Nickajack, Ga. | 1 |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 15 | Atlanta, Ga. | 17 |
| Corinth, Miss. | 25 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 2 |
| Dallas, Ga. | 4 | Eden Station, Ga., Dec. 7, 1864 | 2 |
Present, also, at Siege of
Corinth,
Bear Creek, Ala.;
Town Creek, Ala.;
Resaca, Ga.; Rome Cross Roads, Ga.;
Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.; Litttle Ogeeche River, Ga.; Siege of
Savannah, Ga.;
Columbia, S. C.;
Lynch's Creek, S. C.;
Bentonville, N. C.
notes.--Organized at
Davenport, Iowa, in May, 1861.
During the first year of its service it was stationed in
Missouri, employed on guard duty at various points, and in protecting railroad communications.
It left
St. Louis February 7, 1862, proceeding by river transports to
Fort Donelson, where, under command of
Colonel Tuttle, it was engaged in the assault on the enemy's right.
It was then in
Lauman's Brigade of
General C. F. Smith's Division, and led the attack of the brigade.
Its casualties at
Fort Donelson were 33 killed and 164 wounded; two color-bearers were killed, and two wounded, while eight of the nine men in the color-guard were killed or wounded.
The regiment was engaged a few weeks later at
Shiloh; it was then in
Tuttle's Brigade of
W. H. Wallace's Division; loss, 8 killed, 60 wounded, and 4 missing. Next came the Siege of
Corinth, and on October 3, 1862, the
battle of Corinth.
At that battle the Second fought in
Hackleman's Brigade of
Davies's Division, its loss there amounting to 12 killed, 84 wounded, and 5 missing. Among the killed were
Colonel Baker,
Lieutenant-Colonel Noah W. Mills and four line officers;
General Hackleman was also killed in this engagement.
The regiment wintered at
Corinth, Miss., and in the fall of 1863 moved to
Pulaski, Tenn. It reenlisted in the winter of 1863-64, and upon its return from its veteran furlough entered the
Atlanta campaign, during which it was in
Fuller's (1st) Brigade,
Veatch's (4th) Division, Sixteenth Corps.
After the fall of
Atlanta it was transferred to
Howard's (1st) Brigade,
Rice's (4th) Division, Fifteenth Corps, with which it marched to the
Sea and through the Carolinas.
In November, 1864, the veterans and recruits of the Third Iowa remaining in the field were transferred to this regiment.
The Second Iowa was mustered out July 12, 1865.
