2nd_Iowa_Independent_Battery_Light_Artillery

2nd Iowa Independent Battery Light Artillery

2nd Iowa Independent Battery Light Artillery

Military unit

The 2nd Iowa Light Artillery Battery was a light artillery battery from Iowa that served in the Union Army between August 18, 1861, and February 7, 1865, during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 2nd Iowa Light Artillery was mustered into Federal service at Council Bluffs, Iowa for a three-year enlistment on August 18, 1861. The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on August 7, 1865.

Memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park

Total strength and casualties

A total of 193 men served in the 2nd Iowa Battery at one time or another during its existence.[1] It suffered 3 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 29 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 32 fatalities[2]

References

  1. [1]
    http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil720.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
  2. [2]
    http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniaarty.htm#2ndarty The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry# A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion# 3 vols# New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959#

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