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Seventh Iowa Infantry.
Rice's Brigade —
Sweeny'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 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 1 | 16 |
| Company | A | | 13 | 13 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 169 |
| | B | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 21 | 21 | 175 |
| | C | 2 | 16 | 18 | 2 | 21 | 23 | 172 |
| | D | | 11 | 11 | | 8 | 8 | 124 |
| | E | | 12 | 12 | | 21 | 21 | 141 |
| | F | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 14 | 14 | 139 |
| | G | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 21 | 21 | 108 |
| | H | | 22 | 22 | | 12 | 12 | 133 |
| | I | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 19 | 19 | 143 |
| | K | | 7 | 7 | | 9 | 9 | 158 |
| Totals | 7 | 134 | 141 | 4 | 160 | 164 | 1,478 |
Total of killed and wounded, 465; captured and missing, 73; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 13.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Belmont, Mo. (8 Cos.) | 74 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 1 |
| Fort Donelson, Tenn. | 2 | Marietta, Ga. | 1 |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 12 | Atlanta, Ga. | 4 |
| Corinth, Miss. | 28 | Allatoona, Ga. | 1 |
| Resaca, Ga. | 15 | Guerrillas | 2 |
| Dallas, Ga. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Fort Henry, Tenn.;
Iuka, Miss.;
Jonesboro, Ga.; Jenkins's Bridge, Ga.;
Savannah, Ga.;
Lynch Creek, S. C.;
Bentonville, N. C.
notes.--Leaving
Iowa August 6, 1861, it proceeded to
Cape Girardeau, Mo., where it was assigned to
Prentiss's Division.
It was engaged on active duty in
Missouri for several months, during which it fought at
Belmont, sustaining the heaviest loss of any regiment in that battle.
The first man killed at
Belmont was one of the skirmishers of the Seventh; its loss was 51 killed, 127 wounded, 39 captured, and 10 missing; a total of 227 out of 410 engaged.
Lieutenant-Colonel Augustus Wentz and three line officers were killed there, while
Colonel Lauman and
Major Rice were wounded.
At
Fort Donelson the regiment was in
General C. F. Smith's Division,
Colonel Lauman commanding the brigade; loss 2 killed and 37 wounded. At
Shiloh,--then in
Tuttle's Brigade,
W. H. Wallace's Division,--the regiment was on parade for inspection when the army was surprised by the
Confederate attack; the Seventh moved promptly to the front, and immediately became engaged; loss, 10 killed, 17 wounded, and 7 missing.
At the
battle of Corinth,--October 3d and 4th, 1862--it was in
Davies's Division; under command of
Colonel Rice it made a stubborn fight, capturing a stand of colors, but losing 21 killed, 87 wounded, and 13 missing; over one-third of those engaged.
The year 1863 was spent near
Corinth, and in 1864, the regiment having reenlisted, entered upon
Sherman's
Atlanta campaign, during which it was hotly engaged at Lay's Ferry, Ga. (
Resaca), where it lost 11 killed and 51 wounded. It was then in
Rice's (1st) Brigade,
Sweeny's (2d) Division, Sixteenth Corps.
After the fall of
Atlanta, it was placed in
Rice's (4th) Division, Fifteenth Corps, in which it served during
Sherman's
Georgia and
Carolina campaigns.
Mustered out July 12, 1865.
