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. LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED. *Reenlisted and served through the war. 1 Mounted Infantry. ^Enlisted for one year. §Enlisted for six months. The 37th Iowa, or " Graybeard Regiment," was a remarkable command. It was organized under General Order 89, State of Iowa, August 25, 1862, which specified that the regiment should be " composed of active and vigorous men, over /he age of 45, and be assigned to garrison duty.'' The average age of the men thus recruited was 57 years. The rolls of the 3/th, on which the age of each man is recorded, show that 3 of the recruits were over eighty, 7 were over seventy, and 123 were over sixty years of age. They enlisted for three years, and the hardy old pioneers performed their allotted duty as well as any regiment could have done. Had occasion demanded they would undoubtedly have gone into action cheerfully and acquitted themselves honorably. Many of the regiments from this State were brigaded by themselves. These Iowa Brigades made brilliant records in the field, and secured for their State a full share of the laurels of the war. Prominent among these was "Hall's Iowa Brigade," of the Seventeenth Corps, composed of the nth, i3th, 1510, and i6th Regiments. These troops were brigaded thus in April, 1862, under command of Colonel Crocker of the i3th Iowa, and served together until mustered out in July, 1865. Crocker, having been promoted Brigadier, was succeeded by Colonel Hall of the nth, who was in turn succeeded, in August, 1864, by General William W. Belknap, formerly of the 151!!. Colonels Reid and Chambers, also, commanded the brigade at times. It fought in all the _15543
