1st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry
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Active	May 14, 1861, to August 20, 1861
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Battle of Wilson's Creek

The 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The 1st Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered into Federal forces on May 14, 1861, for ninety days' service under Abraham Lincoln's first call for volunteers.

The regiment was mustered out on August 20, 1861.

Unit strength was 959. The regiment suffered 1 officer and 19 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 8 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 28 fatalities.

The loss of the regiment at Wilson's Creek was 13 killed, 141 wounded and 4 missing.

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