Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses REGIMENTAL LOSSES IN THE CIVIL WAR. NINTH IOWA INFANTRY. THAYER'S BRIGADE — STEELE'S DIVISION — FIFTEENTH CORPS. (1) COL. WILLIAM VANDEVER: BVT. MAJOR-GEN. (3) COL. FRANK J. HERRON; MAJOR-GEN. (3) COL. DAVID CARSKADDON. 154 killed = 12.5 per cent. . Total of killed and wounded, 571. BATTLES. K. & M.\V Pea Ridge, Ark 74 Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss i Arkansas Post, Ark i Brandon Station, Miss i Siege of Vicksburg, Miss 13 Assault on Vicksburg 29 Missionary Ridge, Tenn 5 Ringgold, Ga 2 Claysville, Ga 2 Present, also, at Sugar Creek; Jackson; Cherokee BATTLES. K. & M.W. Rocky Face Ridge, Ga i Resaca, Ga 4 Dallas, Ga 6 Kenesaw Mountain, Ga 5 Atlanta, Ga 5 Jonesboro, Ga 2 Bentonville, N. C 2 Place unknown i Station ; Tuscumbia ; Chattahoochie,; Lovejoy's Sta tion ; Griswoldville ; Macon ; Eden Station ; Congaree Creek; Columbia. NOTES. —Mustered in at Dubuque, September 24, 1861, it left the State on the 26th, 1,007 strong, and proceeded to Benton Barracks, St. Louis. Four months of active service were passed in Missouri, and then it joined Curtis's Army of the Southwest, having been assigned to Vandever's Brigade, Carr's Division. It fought at Pea Ridge, withstanding a severe attack and sustaining the heaviest loss of any regiment on that field, its cas ualties amounting to 38 killed, 176 wounded, and 4 missing,— a total of 218 out of 560 engaged. The regi ment arrived at Helena, Ark., in July, 1862, remaining there five months and then embarking in December, 1862, for Chickasaw Bayou, where it was under fire. The spring of 1863 was passed in camp at Young's Point, on the Mississippi, where its ranks were sadly depleted by disease. The Ninth was actively engaged at the Siege of Vicksburg, losing there 121 killed or wounded. In the assault on Vicksburg, May i9th, it lost 4 killed and 12 wounded; in the assault of May 22d, it lost 18 killed and 60 wounded. In January, 1864, 287 men reenlisted, received the customary furlough of one month, and returned accompanied by 125 recruits. The Ninth served during the Atlanta campaign in Osterhaus's (ist) Division, Fifteenth Corps, losing in that campaign,— from May ist to September ist,— 14 killed, 70 wounded, and 6 missing. While on the March to the Sea, it was in Stone's Iowa Brigade, C. R. Woods's (ist) Division, Fifteenth Corps. _11660
