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The unit strength in the 6th Iowa Infantry was 1102. The regiment lost 8 officers and 144 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 126 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 280 fatalities. 353 people were wounded and 311 people died from wounds.
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and Colonel McDowell. On July 24, 1862, the regiment reached
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On March 7, 1862, the regiment was ordered to join the
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and mustered into Federal forces on July 17, 1861, by
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Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
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6th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

United States
Union
Infantry
Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Corinth
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Chattanooga
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Jonesborough
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville
infantry
regiment
Union Army
American Civil War
Burlington, Iowa
Louisville, Kentucky
Burlington, Iowa
United States Army
Alexander Chambers
John Adair McDowell
Keokuk, Iowa
Missouri
5th Iowa Infantry
Confederate

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