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Twenty-Fourth Iowa Infantry.
Slack's Brigade —
Hovey's Division--Thirteenth 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 | 2 | 19 |
| Company | A | 1 | 19 | 20 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 107 |
| | B | | 4 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 24 | 127 |
| | C | 2 | 12 | 14 | | 16 | 16 | 107 |
| | D | 1 | 17 | 18 | | 24 | 24 | 137 |
| | E | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 26 | 26 | 117 |
| | F | 1 | 14 | 15 | | 20 | 20 | 123 |
| | G | | 16 | 16 | | 22 | 22 | 113 |
| | H | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 23 | 23 | 129 |
| | I | | 12 | 12 | | 20 | 20 | 104 |
| | K | 1 | 5 | 6 | | 25 | 25 | 124 |
| Totals | 9 | 119 | 128 | 3 | 212 | 215 | 1,207 |
128 killed == 10.6 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 474.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Magnolia Hills, Miss. | 2 | Sabine Cross Roads, La. | 6 |
| Champion's Hill, Miss. | 75 | Rosedale Bayou, La. | 1 |
| Black River, Miss. | 1 | Opequon, Va. | 21 |
| Siege of Vicksburg | 3 | Fisher's Hill, Va. | 1 |
| Jackson, Miss. | 1 | Cedar Creek, Va. | 13 |
| Grand Coteau, La. | 1 | Guerrillas, La. | 2 |
| Nachitoches, La. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at Duvall's Bluff, Ark.;
Fisher's Hill, Va.
notes.--Organized in August, 1862, the men having been recruited from the
State at large.
Leaving
Iowa soon after, it proceeded to
Helena, Ark., where it was stationed for a few months, and in January, 1863, took part in
General Gorman's Expedition up the
White River to Duvall's Bluff.
In the spring of 1863, the regiment joined the army in its advance on
Vicksburg, having been assigned to
Slack's (2d) Brigade,
Hovey's Division, Thirteenth Corps.
Its first engagement occurred at
Port Gibson (
Magnolia Hills), May 1, 1863, in which the regiment lost 1 killed and 5 wounded. At the battle of Champion's Hill, May 16th, it sustained a severe loss, having charged, captured, and held a battery of the enemy.
It was a daring act, but as it made the advance alone, and without proper arrangement for support, it became the object of a concentrated fire which drove it back in disorder.
Its loss at
Champion's His was 35 killed, 120 wounded, and 34 missing; total, 189.
From January, 1864, it lay encamped at
Algiers and in the defences of New Orleans, until March 13th, when it joined Banks's Red River Expedition.
It was then in
Raynor's (2d) Brigade,
McGinniss's (3d) Division, Thirteenth Corps.
At the
battle of Sabine Cross Roads, this division was commanded by
General Cameron.
The regiment was then transferred to the Nineteenth Corps, accompanying it to
Virginia, where it fought in the
Shenandoah Valley campaign, during which
Colonel Wilds was killed at
Cedar Creek.
The regiment was then in
Shunk's (4th) Brigade,
Grover's (2d) Division, Nineteenth Corps.
Its casualties at the
Opequon were 10 killed, 57 woundled, and missing; and at Cedar Creck, 8 killed, 43 wounded, and 41 missing.
