Country United States Branch Cavalry | Allegiance Union Equipment Sharps Carbine, Saber | |
Active July 30, 1861 to March 16, 1866 Engagements Battle of Roan's Tan Yard
Battle of Prairie Grove | ||
The 1st Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Service
The first Iowa Cavalry was organized at Davenport, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service between July 30, and September 12, 1862. Unusually for a Union cavalry regiment, the members of the regiment provided their own horses and equipment. The first Iowa was the first three-year cavalry regiment accepted for Federal service during the war.
The regiment was mustered out on February 15, 1866, while on Reconstruction duty in Austin, Texas, and discharged for state service on March 16, 1866.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 2115 men served in the 1st Iowa at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 2 officers and 56 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 233 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 293 fatalities.