 Iowa In the Civil War |
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4th Iowa Infantry History - Page 17
SUMMARY OF CASUALTIES Total Enrollment 1557 Killed 61 Wounded 338 Died of wounds 54 Died of disease 239 Discharged for wounds, disease and other causes 33 Captured 49 Buried in National Cemeteries 136 Transferred 37 Colonel Dodge was himself wounded in the right side.
The regiment furnished a Major General, a Brigadier General, several Colonels, Lt Colonels and Majors for other Iowa regiments and in the state stands in the first ranks of troops who went out from the state, and in the National stands in the front ranks of the fighting regiments of the Civil War. I doubt if any regiment can show a record of as many battles as it was in and only lost 49 men captured or missing. This shows how well disciplined, trained, and commanded it was. It reached Iowa, at Davenport, on the 28th, numbering four hundred and fifty seven men and twenty-three officers. Entering the service with 1,000 men, three hundred had been added to its ranks as the war progressed. Now, at the close, the 1,300 were reduced by sickness, disability from hard marches, wounds, death, starvation in Rebel prisons, nearly eight hundred. Only 225 men of the original enlistments survived. When Co. B. of the 4th Iowa was mustered out, it had 14 of its original members left. Such was the terrible waste of four years of war in one regiment. |
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