The 7th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service The 7th Iowa Infantry was organized at Burlington, Iowa, and assembled into Federal service between July 23 and August 4, 1861. Just four days after they were mustered, the regiment moved to St. Louis on August 8, to receive Springfield Rifles.
The regiment was sent out on July 12, 1865.
Total strength and casualties Unit strength was 1552. The regiment lost 7 officers and 134 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 160 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 305 fatalities.https://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf1.htm#7th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. 354 were wounded.
Commanders
Colonel Jacob Gartner Lauman Colonel Elliott W. Ricehttps://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil309.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1 Brevet Colonel James Corner Parrot
See also List of Iowa Civil War Units Iowa in the American Civil War
Notes
References The Civil War Archive