29th Iowa Infantry Regiment

The 29th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

29th Iowa Infantry Regiment
Iowa state flag
ActiveDecember 1, 1862, to August 10, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry

Service

The 29th Iowa Infantry was organized at Council Bluffs, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on December 1, 1862.

Sophronia Smith Hunt was an American woman who disguised herself as a man and secretly served as a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[1] Her first soldier husband died of wounds received at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry. They served in Company C of the 29th Iowa Infantry Regiment.

The regiment was mustered out on August 10, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 1485 men served in the 29th Iowa at one time or another during its existence.[2] It suffered 1 officer and 42 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 266 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 310 fatalities.[3]

Commanders

See also

Notes
  1. Gallagher, Tim (November 20, 2016). "Siouxland woman who fought in Civil War receives headstone". Sioux City Journal. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
  2. http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil513.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
  3. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf3.htm#22ndinf The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  4. Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1

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