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after being struck by pieces of an exploding shell. Four officers and 311 enlisted men died of disease, for a total of 317 and losses from all other causes had been 180. Most of these men died or were discharged due to disease from mid-July 1863 to mid-October 1863. The mortality loss alone amounted to over thirty percent of the total number enrolled, while the aggregate number of its casualties constituted nearly fifty per cent of its total enrollment. The regiment, without having had the opportunity to participate in any one of the great pitched battles of the war, passed through a frightful struggle with disease and death, only surpassed by other regiments whose conflicts with the enemy involved the loss of so many lives in addition to those claimed by disease. This period, when the Regiment lost more men to disease than any other Iowa regiment will come to symbolize the Regiment,s place in Iowa's civil war history.
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A total of 1037 men served in the 38th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. The Regiment suffered 1 enlisted man (Bendick Bendickson) killed in action at Vicksburg on July 16, 1863, when he was shot through the head, and one other (Evelyn Califf) who died of his wounds there on July 1
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Lieutenant Colonel Joseph O. Hudnutt - Last commander of the 38th Iowa Infantry, from about January 7, 1864, until December 31, 1864, when mustered out upon consolidation of the regiment with the 34th Iowa
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Charles Chadwick - Commanded regiment in place of Colonel Hughes from about August 1, 1863, until resigning on January 7, 1864.
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Biographical Record of the Class of 1850 of Yale College (New Haven, CT: Tuttle, Morehouse,& Taylor, 1877), 21–22:
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On April 9, 1865, the consolidated 34th Iowa Infantry participated in the last major battle of the Civil War at
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Personnel for the 38th Iowa Infantry were enrolled chiefly in five counties in northeastern Iowa:
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on September 12, 1862; commission revoked by governor for incompetence on October 26, 1862.
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The 38th Iowa Infantry arrived on June 11, 1863, in the vicinity of Vicksburg, where the
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The 38th Iowa Infantry was ordered on December 12, 1864, to be consolidated with the
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William Brush - Commissioned as the regiment's commanding officer by Iowa Governor
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was besieging the city. In response to rumors of Confederate cavalry moving from
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on October 27, 1862, to replace Brush. Died of disease August 7, 1863, at
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Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., ''
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Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E.,
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A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement
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http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf4.htm#36thinf
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The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry.
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Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1864
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Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion''
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38th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

United States
Union
Infantry
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Fort Morgan
infantry
regiment
Union Army
American Civil War
Fayette
Winneshiek
Bremer
Chickasaw
Howard
Dubuque, Iowa
New Madrid
Missouri
New Madrid
Pemiscot
Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Major General
Francis Herron's
Union
Army of the Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant
Yazoo City

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