The 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 24th Iowa Infantry was organized at Muscatine, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service on September 18, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on July 17, 1865.
Total strength and casualties A total of 1204 men served in the 24th Iowa at one time or another during its existence.http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil508.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1 It suffered 6 officers and 69 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 208 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 284 fatalities.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.
Commanders Colonel Eber C. Byam Colonel John Q. Wilds Lieutenant Colonel Edward WrightIowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
See also List of Iowa Civil War Units Iowa in the American Civil War Samuel J. Kirkwood Siege of Vicksburg Battle of Big Black River Bridge
Notes
References The Civil War Archive Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System History of Company H - The "Springville Company" of the Twenty-Fourth Iowa Volunteers by Stan E. Capron