45th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 45th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry


caption=Iowa state flag
dates= May 25, 1864 to September 15, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=

The 45th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days.

ervice

The 45th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa, and mustered in for one hundred days of Federal service on May 25, 1864, as part of a plan to raise short-term regiments for service as rear area garrison duty to release veteran troops for Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. The 45th Iowa garrisoned strategic points on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad.

The regiment was mustered out at Keokuk on September 15, 1864.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 972 men served in the 45th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil712.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1] It suffered 3 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 19 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 22 fatalities. [Logan, "Roster"]

Commanders

*Colonel Alvah H. Bereman [Logan, "Roster"]

ee also

*List of Iowa Civil War Units
*Iowa in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]