The 24th Iowa Infantry lost 9 officers and 119 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 212 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1862 |
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Organized at Muscatine |
September 18 |
Mustered in |
October 20-28 |
Moved to Helena, Ark. Attached to District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept, Missouri |
November 16-21 |
Expedition from Helena, Ark., to Arkansas Post |
November 27-
December 5 |
Expedition to Grenada, Miss. |
December |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, then 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. Tennessee |
1863 |
January 13-19 |
Gorman's Expedition up White River |
February |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 12th Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. Tennessee |
March 5-12 |
Expedition up St. Francis and Little Rivers |
March 9 |
Skirmish at Madison |
March 13-April 5 |
Yazoo Pass Expedition and operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood |
April 13 |
Moved to Milliken's Bend |
April 25-30 |
Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf |
May 1 |
Battle of Port Gibson |
May 2-3 |
Bayou Pierrie |
May 12-13 |
Fourteen Mile Creek |
May 16 |
Battle of Champion's Hill |
May 17 |
Big Black River Bridge |
May 18-July 4 |
Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. |
May 19 |
Assault on Vicksburg |
May 22 |
Assault on Vicksburg |
July 5-10 |
Advance on Jackson, Miss. |
July 10-17 |
Siege of Jackson. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. Tennessee |
August 2 |
Ordered to New Orleans, La. |
August -
September |
Duty at Carrollton and Brashear City |
October 3-
November 20 |
Western Louisiana Campaign |
November 3 |
Vermillionville, Carrion Crow Bayou |
November-
December |
At New Iberia |
1864 |
January 17 |
Moved to New Orleans then to Madisonville and duty there |
March 14-May 22 |
Red River Campaign |
March 14-26 |
Advance from Franklin to Alexandria |
April 8 |
Battle of Sabine Cross Roads |
April 9 |
Pleasant Hill |
April 22-23 |
Cane River Crossing |
April 26-May 13 |
At Alexandria |
April 30-May 10 |
Construction of dam at Alexandria |
May 5 |
Graham's Plantation |
May 13-22 |
Retreat to Morganza |
May 16 |
Mansura |
May 30-June 6 |
Expedition from Morganza to the Atchafalaya River |
July 2-13 |
Moved to Fort Monroe, Va., thence to Washington, D.C. |
July |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
August |
Attached to 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army Shenandoah |
August 7-
November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October-December |
Duty in the Shenandoah Valley |
December |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army Shenandoah |
1865 |
January 6-7 |
Moved to Baltimore, Md. |
January 14-20 |
To Savannah, Ga. and attached to 3rd Brigade, Grover's Division, District of Savannah, Dept. South |
March 4 |
To Hilton Head, S.C. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army Ohio |
March 6 |
To Wilmington, N. C. |
March 8-10 |
To Morehead City and Newberne |
March 12 |
To Morehead City |
April 9 |
To Goldsboro |
May 1-6 |
To Savannah, attached to District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. South |
May 11 |
Moved to Hamburg, S.C. |
May 31 |
To Augusta |
June 20 |
To Savannah |
July 17 |
Mustered out at Savannah, Ga. |
July 20-August 2 |
Moved to Davenport, Iowa |
