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Thirteenth Iowa Infantry.
Hall's Brigade —
Giles A. Smith'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 | | 15 | 15 | | 19 | 19 | 118 |
| | B | 1 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 22 | 24 | 115 |
| | C | | 12 | 12 | | 23 | 23 | 103 |
| | D | | 8 | 8 | | 25 | 25 | 118 |
| | E | | 9 | 9 | | 21 | 21 | 102 |
| | F | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 22 | 22 | 95 |
| | G | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 21 | 21 | 120 |
| | H | | 10 | 10 | | 15 | 15 | 114 |
| | I | 1 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 19 | 20 | 116 |
| | K | | 15 | 15 | | 18 | 18 | 102 |
| Totals | 5 | 114 | 119 | 4 | 205 | 209 | 1,1181 |
119 killed == 10.7 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 443; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 12.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 41 | Atlanta, Ga., July 20, 1864 | 3 |
| Corinth, Miss. | 4 | Atlanta, Ga., July 21, 1864 | 23 |
| Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. | 1 | Atlanta, Ga., July 22, 1864 | 29 |
| Hillsboro, Miss. | 2 | Ezra Church, Ga. | 3 |
| Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 2 | Siege of Atlanta, Ga. | 3 |
| Nickajack Creek, Ga. | 4 | Lovejoy's Station, Ga. | 2 |
| On Picket, Ga., Sept. 5, 1864 | 1 | Columbia, S. C. | 1 |
Present, also, at Siege of
Corinth;
Resaca, Ga.;
Flint River, Ga.;
Savannah, Ga.;
Pocotaligo, S. C.; Rivers's Bridge, S. C.;
Orangeburg, S. C.;
Bentonville, N. C.
notes.--Organized at
Davenport, Iowa, in October, 1861.
It served in
Missouri until the spring of 1862, when it moved with
Grant to
Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., and fought at
Shiloh, it being then in
McClernand's Division; loss, 20 killed, 139 wounded, and 3 missing; a total of 162, out of 717 present in action.
Soon after this battle the famous Iowa Brigade--Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa--was organized, and placed under command of
Colonel Crocker.
This brigade participated in the Siege of
Corinth, and on October 4th, 1862, in the battle at that place, in which the Thirteenth lost 1 killed and 14 wounded. During the
Vicksburg campaign the brigade was under the command of
Colonel Hall, and served in
McArthur's Division, Seventeenth Corps.
The autumn of 1863, and most of the following winter, was passed in camp at
Vicksburg.
In February, 1864, it was engaged in
Sherman's March to
Meridian, Miss., after which the regiment, having reenlisted, went home on a “veteran furlough.”
The reenlistments numbered 379, officers and men, which, with the recruits, preserved the organization after its term of service had expired.
Upon its return it entered the
Atlanta campaign, the Iowa Brigade serving as the Third Brigade of
Gresham's (4th) Division, Seventeenth Corps.
At the
battle of Atlanta--July 21st and 22d--the regiment, under
Colonel Shane, was in the thickest of the fight, losing 247 in killed, wounded and missing, out of 410 present for duty;
Major Wm. A. Walker, a gallant officer, was killed in the second day's fight.
The regiment marched through
Georgia to the
Sea, and was the first to enter
Columbia, S. C. (February 17, 1865), its colors being the first to wave over the
State Capitol.
