3rd Iowa Infantry Regiment

The 3rd Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered into Federal forces on June 8, 1861.

The regiment was consolidated into a battalion of three companies in July, 1864 after those members of the regiment who did not reenlist mustered out and the survivors were transferred to 2nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry as Companies "A," "F," and "I" on November 4, 1864.

Unit strength was 1099. The regiment suffered 8 officers and 119 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 122 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 249 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#3rd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. 207 were wounded.

• Colonel Nelson G. Williams
• Lieutenant Colonel John Scotthttp://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil304.htm Iowa 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
• Modena Weston, "Mother" of the Regiment

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• [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]
• [https://www.loc.gov/item/02013152/ Recollections with the Third Iowa regiment] at the Library of Congress

Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Iowa

Category:1861 establishments in Iowa

Category:Military units and formations established in 1861

Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1864

Category:1864 disestablishments in Iowa

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