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IOWA REGIMENTS.

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LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.—CONTINUED.

*Reenlisteu and served through the war. tThree-months' regiment; fought at Wilson's Creek.

Atlanta campaign. 11 2 killed and wounded. While on the latter campaign the regiment was hotly engaged at Resaca, and at Adairsville.

The 2ist, also, lost over ten per cent, in killed and mortally wounded, it having carried 1,171 names on its rolls. At Chaplin Hills this regiment lost 38 killed, 103 wounded,* and 56 missing; and, at Resaca, 10 killed and 43 wounded.*

The 9th Wisconsin, or " First German," lost at Jenkins's Ferry 13 killed and 81 wounded ;* the loth Wisconsin, at Chaplin Hills, 37 killed, 109 wounded,* and 4 missing, out of 16 officers and 360 men taken into action ; the i2th Wisconsin, at Atlanta (battle of July 2ist and 22d), 42 killed, 147 wounded,* and 20 missing; the i5th,f or "Scandinavian Regiment," at Stone's River, 15 killed (including the Lieutenant-Colonel), 70 wounded,* and 34 missing, and at Chickamauga, 13 killed (including Colonel Heg), 53 wounded,* and 45 missing; the aoth, at Prairie Grove, 50 killed, 154 wounded,* and 13 missing; the 22(1, at Resaca, n killed, 56 wounded, and i miss ing ; the 29th, at Champion's Hill, 19 killed, 92 wounded,* and 2 missing, and, at Port Gibson, 10 killed and 65 wounded. The i ith Wisconsin Battery was also known as Battery L, ist Illinois Light Artillery.

•Including the mortally wounded. tThe 15th Wisconsin had only 899 men enrolled ; killed 91. < >r 10.1 |»er cent.

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