18th Iowa Infantry Regiment

18th Iowa Infantry Regiment Flag of Iowa.svg 100 Iowa state flag August 6, 1862, to July 21, 1865 United States Union Infantry .68 cal. Austrian Rifles American Civil War Trans-Mississippi theater Second Battle of Springfield Battle of Prairie D'Ane The 18th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 18th Iowa Infantry was organized at Clinton, Iowa, and mustered in for three years of Federal service on August 6, 1862. thumb|Map of Springfield II Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. The regiment was ordered to Missouri, marching into Springfield and joining the Army of the Southwest.Ingersoll 1867 309 On January 7, 1863, the regiment received intelligence that confederates were marching towards Springfield. By the afternoon, gunfire increased and eventually turned into a battle. The 3rd and 4th Missouri Cavalry Regiment charged to the right of the confederates, inflicting severe injuries. After around an hour, the confederates advanced to the right of the union, captured the area. The confederates then captured an academy, being used as a prison, to the left.Ingersoll 1867 310 The regiment was mustered out on July 20, 1865. Total strength and casualties The 18th Iowa mustered 1127 men at one time or another during its existence.Roster and Records of Iowa Soldiers, War of the Rebellion – Regiment History 18th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil502.htm 2026-05-01 IAGenWeb It suffered 2 officers and 33 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 131 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 167 fatalities.Union Regimental Histories https://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf2.htm 2026-05-01 Civil War Archive 79 were wounded. Commanders Colonel John Edwards Colonel Hugh J. Campbell See also List of Iowa Civil War Units Iowa in the American Civil War References Sources 1 Ingersoll Lurton Dunham Iowa and the rebellion. A history of the troops furnished by the state of Iowa to the volunteer armies of the Union, which conquered the great Southern Rebellion of 1861-5 Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and Co. 1867 https://archive.org/details/iowarebellionhis00inge/page/311/mode/1up References The Civil War Archive Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Iowa Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:1862 establishments in Iowa Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865