2nd & 3rd Iowa Consolidated Infantry Regiment

HISTORICAL NOTES:
The non-veterans of the 2nd Iowa Regiment were mustered out on May 22nd, 1864, leaving the regiment with six companies. For the remainder of the Atlanta Campaign, the 2nd was consolidated with the three remaining companies of the 3d Ia. Lieut. -Col. Howard was promoted colonel. It moved with the army toward Savannah, was in a lively engagement at the Ogeechee river, in which the enemy were soon put to flight, and moved into Savannah two weeks later. In the march through the Carolinas it was engaged at Columbia and again at Lynch's creek, which closed its fighting history. After moving to Goldsboro, thence to Raleigh, Petersburg and Richmond, it proceeded to Washington City, where it took part in the grand review. It was mustered out at Louisville. The regiment's original strength was 998; gain by recruits 223; unassigned recruits 26; total 1,247.

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REFERENCES:

REF: Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
The Union Army, Vol. 4. The Federal Publishing Company, 1908.