46th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment
HISTORICAL NOTES:
The 46th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment was organized at Davenport June 10, 1864. 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. They Mustered out September 23, 1864.
Dyer's reports that the regiment lost during service 1 Enlisted man killed and 27 Enlisted men by disease. Total 28. Logan states it suffered 6 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 25 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 31 fatalities.
OFFICERS:
Colonel David B. Henderson, (future ten-term congressman and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1899 to 1902)
ASSIGNMENTS:
Assigned to guard duty on Memphis & Charleston Railroad until September, 1864.
SERVICE:
Action near Colliersville, Tenn., July 24 (Detachment of Company "I").
Repulse of Forest's attack on Memphis August 21 (Detachment).
ROSTERS:
The roster of this regiment contains 967 names.
Company A - enrolled in Dubuque County
Company B - enrolled in Poweshiek County
Company C - enrolled in Dallas County
Company D - enrolled in Taylor County and Fayette County
Company E - enrolled in Lynn County and Ringgold County
Company F - enrolled in Delaware County and Winneshiek County
Company G - enrolled in Monroe County
Company H - enrolled in Wayne County and Clark County
Company I - enrolled in Cedar County
Company K - enrolled in Lucas County
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REFERENCES:
REF: Wikipedia
Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion
The Union Army by Federal Publishing Company
