15th Iowa Infantry Regiment

The 15th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa, and mustered in for three years of Federal service on February 22, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 24, 1865.

After the Battle of Shiloh, the Thirteenth Iowa was assigned to the Third Brigade of the Sixth Division. The Brigade was composed of the Eleventh, Thirteenth, 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and Sixteenth regiments of Iowa Infantry, and was under command of Colonel Crocker. This organization remained intact until the close of the war. Except when upon detached duty, the operations of each of the regiments were identified very largely with those of the brigade, and, therefore, the history of each of these four Iowa regiments is almost inseparably interwoven with that of the brigade.http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil403.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1File:Crockers Brigade.jpg

The 15th Iowa mustered a total of 1,926 men over the span of its existence.http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil407.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

It suffered 8 officers and 118 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 260 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 387 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm#15th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

• Colonel Hugh T. Reid
• Colonel William W. BelknapIowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

• List of Iowa Civil War Units
• Iowa in the American Civil War

• [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=q0AtAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA629 15th Iowa regimental history]

• [http://www.civilwarindex.com/armyia/15th_ia_infantry.html 15th Iowa Infantry in the American Civil War]
• {{Internet Archive|05728343.3085.emory.edu|History of the Fifteenth Regiment, Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry: from October, 1861, to August, 1865, when disbanded at the end of the war (1887)}}

Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Iowa

Category:1862 establishments in Iowa

Category:Military units and formations established in 1862

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