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Fifteenth Iowa Infantry.
Iowa Brigade--
McArthur's Division--Seventeenth 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 | | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| Company | A | 2 | 11 | 13 | | 25 | 25 | 145 |
| | B | | 14 | 14 | 1 | 28 | 29 | 168 |
| | C | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 31 | 31 | 152 |
| | D | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 29 | 29 | 183 |
| | E | | 12 | 12 | | 24 | 24 | 175 |
| | F | | 11 | 11 | | 32 | 32 | 175 |
| | G | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 27 | 27 | 168 |
| | H | | 10 | 10 | | 14 | 14 | 142 |
| | I | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 26 | 26 | 148 |
| | K | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 23 | 23 | 148 |
| Totals | 8 | 118 | 126 | 1 | 260 | 261 | 1,619 |
Total of killed and wounded, 462.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 41 | Ezra Chapel, Ga. | 3 |
| Corinth, Miss. | 22 | Siege of Atlanta, Ga. | 7 |
| Vicksburg, Miss. | 2 | Sherman's March | 1 |
| Kenesaw, Ga. | 6 | Savannah, Ga. | 1 |
| Picket, July 1, 1864 | 1 | Pocotaligo, S. C. | 1 |
| Nickajack Creek, Ga. | 4 | Congaree Creek, S. C. | 2 |
| Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1864 | 10 | Bentonville, N. C. | 2 |
| Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 | 23 | | |
Present, also, at Lovejoy's Station, Ga.; Siege of
Corinth;
Noonday Creek, Ga. Chattahoochie,
Ga.
notes.--Organized at
Keokuk, February 22, 1862, and mustered in on March 14th.
It left the
State, 1,038 strong, on March 19th, stopping at
St. Louis where it was armed and equipped, and on the morning of April 6th arrived at
Pittsburg Landing just as the
battle of Shiloh was commencing.
It had been previously assigned to
Prentiss's Division, but being unable to find that command,
Colonel Reid ordered the regiment into line, and it fought in
McClernand's Division.
Though entering a battle with so little preparation, it rendered efficient service and acquitted itself creditably.
Its loss at
Shiloh was 21 killed, 156 wounded, and 8 missing; a total of 85, out of 760 engaged.
At the
battle of Corinth the Iowa Brigade was commanded by
Crocker, and fought in
McKean's Division, the Fifteenth,
Colonel Belknap commanding, sustained the principal loss in the brigade, its casualties amounting to 11 killed, 67 wounded, and 8 missing, out of “about” 350 engaged.
In the early spring of 1863, the regiment encamped near
Lake Providence, La., and assisted in digging the military canal connecting the
Lake with the
Mississippi River.
During the
Vicksburg campaign of the following summer, the Iowa Brigade served in
McArthur's Division of the Seventeenth Corps.
The regiment reenlisted, and, returning from its veteran furlough, joined
Sherman's Army, June 10, 1864, at
Kenesaw, Ga. In the
battle of Atlanta--July 21st and 22d--the regiment lost 178 men, killed, wounded, and missing, and captured the flags of two Confederate regiments.
During the March to the
Sea, and through the Carolinas, the division--Fourth Division, Seventeenth Army Corps--was commanded by
General Giles A. Smith, and the brigade, by
General Belknap.
