IOWA VOLUNTEERS - 7th REGIMENT INFANTRY.
From Dyer’s A COMPENDIUM OF THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
Organized at Burlington July 24 to August 4,
1861. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., August 6; thence to
Pilot Knob, Mo. Attached to District of Cairo to
February, 1862. 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, District
of Cairo, February, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division,
District of West Tennessee and Army of Tennessee,
to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, District of
Corinth, Dept. of the Tennessee to September, 1862.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Corinth, to
October, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division,
District of Corinth, to November, 1862. 1st
Brigade, District of Corinth, 13th Army Corps (Old),
Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 1st
Brigade, District of Corinth, 17th Army Corps, Dept.
of the Tennessee, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade,
District of Corinth, 16th Army Corps, to March,
1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps,
to September, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 15th
Army Corps, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.—
1861 - Duty at Pilot Knob, Jackson, Cape
Girardeau County, Norfolk, Fort Jefferson, Bird's
Point, Mo., Fort Holt, Ky., and Cairo, Ill., till
November, 1861. Affair at Elliott's Mills, Camp
Crittenden, September 22. Expedition to Belmont
November 6-7. Battle of Belmont November 7.
Moved from Bird's Point to St. Louis, Mo.,
November 10, and duty there till January, 1862.
1862 -
Expedition to Fort Henry, Tenn., January
15-25. Operations against Fort Henry February 2-6.
Investsent of Fort Donelson February 12-16. Capture
of Fort Donelson February 16. Expedition to
Clarksburg, Tenn., February 19-21. Moved to
Pittsburg Landing March 5-18. Battle of Shiloh
April 6-7. Advance on and siege of Corinth,
Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit May 31-June 6.
Duty at Corinth till October. Expedition to Iuka,
Miss., September 18-22. Battle of Iuka September
19. Battle of Corinth October 3-4. Pursuit
October 5-7. Moved to Rienzi October 7; thence to
Boneyard and duty there till November. Little Bear
Creek November 28 and December 12. Duty at
Corinth till March, 1863. Expedition against Forest
December 18, 1862, to January 3, 1863.
1863 -
Moved to Bethel, Tenn., March 1863, and
duty there till June 1. Moved to Corinth June 1;
thence to Moscow and duty there till August. At
LaGrange till October. arch to Pulaski October 30November 11 and duty there till March, 1864.
1864 – Veterans on furlough January and
February. At Prospect, Tenn., till April. Atlanta
(Ga.) Campaign May 1 to September 8.
Demonstration on Resaca May 8-13. Sugar Valley
May 9. Battle of Resaca May 13-14. Ley's Ferry,
Oostenaula River, May 15. Rome Cross Roads May
16. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and
battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and
Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about
Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10,
July 2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Mill July
3-4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Battle of Atlanta
July 22. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank
movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Flint River
Station August 30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 1-26.
Reconnoissance and skirmishes on Cave Springs
Road, near Rome, October 12-13. March to the sea
November 15-December 10. Little Ogeechee River
December 4. Eden Station and Jenks Bridge
December 7, Siege of Savannah December 10-21.
1865 - Campaign of the Carolinas January to
April, 1865. Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C., February
3-5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto
River February 12-13. Congaree Creek February 15.
Columbia February 16-17. Lynch's Creek February
25-26. Expedition to Florence, S.C., March 4-6.
Battle of Bentonville March 20-21. Occupation of
Goldsboro March 24. Advance on Raleigh April 913. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House
April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army.
March to Washington, D. C., via Richmond, Va.,
April 29-May 20. Grand Review May 24. Moved
to Louisville, Ky., June. Mustered out July 12, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 7 Officers and 134
Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4
Officers and 160 Enlisted men by disease. Total 305.
FEDERAL ORDER OF BATTLE (from event website)
Major General William Starke Rosecrans, commanding
2nd Division - Brigadier General David S. Stanley
2nd Division - Brigadier General Thomas A. Davies
1st Brigade - Colonel John W. Fuller
27th Ohio Infantry - Major Zephaniah S. Spaulding
39th Ohio Infantry - Col A. W. Gilbert, Lt Col. Wager Swayne
63rd Ohio Infantry - Colonel John W. Sprague
Jenks's Company, Illinois Cavalry - Captain Albert Jenks
3rd Battery, Michigan Artillery- Lieutenant Carl A. Lambert
1 Section, 8th Battery Wisc. Artillery- Lieut John D. McLean
Battery "F", 2nd U.S. Artillery- Captain Thomas D. Maurice
K-55 W-255 M-11 =321
1st Brig. – BG Plesant A. Hackleman(K), Col Thomas W. Sweeney
52nd Illinois Inf’y – Col. T. W. Sweeney, Lt. Col. John S. Wilcox
2nd Iowa Infantry - Colonel James Baker (MW), Lieutenant
Colonel Noah W. Mills (MW), Major James B. Weaver
7th Iowa Infantry - Colonel Elliott W. Rice
Union Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel John P. Coulter
Detachments of: 58th Illinois, 8th Iowa, 12th Iowa and 14th
Iowa Infantries.
K-49 W-318 M-36 =403
2nd Brigade - Colonel Joseph Anthony Mower (W)
26th Illinois Infantry - Major Robert A. Gillmore
47th Illinois Infantry – Col. William A. Thrush (K), Capt. Harman
Andrews (K); Capt. Samuel R. Baker
5th Minnesota Infantry - Colonel Lucius F. Hubbard
11th Missouri Infantry - Major Andrew J. Weber
8th Wisconsin Infantry – Lieut. Colonel George W. Robbins (W),
Major John W. Jefferson (W) Captain William B. Britton
2nd Battery, Iowa Artillery- Captain Nelson T. Spoor
K-48 W-248 M-26 =322
2nd Brigade – Brig.Gen Richard J. Oglesby (W), Col. August Mersy
9th Illinois Infantry - Colonel August Mersy
12th Illinois Infantry - Colonel Augustus L. Chetlain
22nd Ohio Infantry - Major Oliver Wood
81st Ohio Infantry - Colonel Thomas Morton
K-38 W-222 M-73 =333
3rd Division - Brigadier General Charles S. Hamilton
Company "C", 5th Missouri Cavalry
1st Brigade - Brigadier General Napoleon B. Buford
48th Indiana Infantry - Lieutenant Colonel DeWitt C. Rugg (W),
Lieutenant James W. Archer
59th Indiana Infantry - Colonel Jesse L. Alexander
5th Iowa Infantry - Colonel Charles L. Matthies
4th Minnesota Infantry - Colonel John B. Sanborn
26th Missouri Infantry - Lieutenant Colonel John H. Holman (W)
Battery "M", 1st Missouri Artillery- Lieut. Junius W. MacMurray
11th Battery, Ohio Artillery- Lieutenant Henry M. Neil
K-7 W-48 M-0 =55
2nd Brigade - BG Jeremiah C. Sullivan, Col. Samuel A. Holmes
56th Illinois Infantry - Lieutenant Colonel Green Berry Raum
10th Iowa Infantry - Major Nathaniel McCalla
17th Iowa Infantry - Major Jabez Banbury
10th Mo. Inf’y - Col. Samuel A. Holmes, Maj. Leonidas Horney
80th Ohio Infantry - Major Richard Lanning (K)
Bat. "E", 24th Mo Art.- Capt. Lafayette M. Rice, Capt. David
Skeels
6th Battery, Wisconsin Artillery- Captain Henry Dillon
12th Battery, Wisconsin Artillery- Lieutenant Lorenzo D. Immell
K-34 W-227 M-15 =276
Cavalry Division - Colonel John K. Mizner
1st Brigade - Colonel Edward Hatch
2nd Brigade - Colonel Albert Lindley Lee
7th Illinois Cavalry - Colonel Edward Prince
11th Illinois Cavalry - Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
2nd Iowa Cavalry - Major Datus E. Coon
7th Kansas Cavalry - Lieutenant Colonel T. P. Herrick
3rd Michigan Cavalry - Captain Lyman G. Willcox
4 Companies, 5th Ohio Cavalry- Captain Joseph C. Smith
K-5 W-17 M-14 =36
64th Illinois Sharpshooters * Captain John Morrill
6 Companies, 1st U.S. Siege Artillery- Captain G. A. Williams
* Also known as Yate's Sharpshooters
K-16 W-53 M-15 =84
3rd Brigade – Col. Silas D. Baldwin (W), Col John V. DuBois
7th Illinois Infantry - Colonel Andrew J. Babcock
50th Illinois Infantry - Lieutenant Colonel William Swarthout
57th Illinois Inf’y – Lt.Col Frederick J. Hurlbut, Major Eric Forsse
K-21 W-115 M-46 =182
Artillery - Major George H. Stone
Battery "D", 1st Missouri Artillery- Capt. Henry Richardson
Battery "H", 1st Missouri Artillery- Capt. Frederick Welker
Battery "I", 1st Missouri Artillery- Lieut. Charles H. Thurber
Battery "K", 1st Missouri Artillery- Lieut. Charles Green
K-6 W-29 M-0 =35
14th Missouri Infantry - * Colonel Patrick E. Burke
* Also known at Western Sharpshooters
K-6 W-14 M-3 =23
6th Division - Brigadier General Thomas J. McKean
1st Brigade - Colonel Benjamin Allen, Brig. Genl. John McArthur
21st Missouri Infantry - Col. David Moore, Maj. Edwin Moore
16th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment- Major Thomas Reynolds
17th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment- Colonel John L. Doran
K-11 W-67 M-23 =101
2nd Brigade - Colonel John M. Oliver
Independent Company Illinois Cavalry- Captain William Ford
15th Michigan Infantry - Lieutenant Colonel John McDermott
4 Companies, 18th Missouri Infantry Captain Jacob R. Ault
14th Wisconsin Infantry - Colonel John Hancock
18th Wisconsin Infantry - Colonel Gabriel Bouck
K-45 W-108 M-38 =191
3rd Brigade - Colonel Marcellus M. Crocker
11th Iowa Infantry - Lieutenant Colonel William Hall
13th Iowa Infantry - Lieutenant Colonel John Shane
15th Iowa Inf. - Lt.Col. Addison H. Sanders (W), Maj. Wm Purcell
K-14 W-111 M-24 =149
Artillery - Captain Andrew Hickenlooper
Battery "F", 2nd Illinois Artillery- Lieutenant J. W. Mitchell
1st Battery, Minnesota Artillery- Lieutenant G. F. Cooke
1 Section, 3rd Bt. Ohio Art.- Capt. Emil Munch, Sgt. Sylvanus Clark
5th Battery, Ohio Artillery- Lieutenant B. S. Matson
10th Battery, Ohio Artillery- Captain H. B. White
K-0 W-8 M-0 =8
TOTAL CASUALTIES =
Killed 355; Wounded 1,841; Missing 324; TOTAL 2,250