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[Klink]

What Units comprised the Iowa Brigade?

 

[Borderruffian]

There were a couple brigades called the Iowa Brigade which one are you looking for?

 

[Klink]

I thought there was only one, and that was in the AOtT and acquired its name post Shiloh.
What are the others?

 

[Borderruffian]

There was one in 1861 and 1862 in the Trans-Miss with the Army of the Southwest.

 

[johan_steele]

Crocker's Iowa Brigade contained:

Below is part of the history of the 13th IA which details some about the Iowa Brigade.

Organized at Davenport, Iowa, in October, 1861. It served in Missouri until the spring of 1862, when it moved with Grant to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., and fought at Shiloh, it being then in McClernand's Division; loss, 20 killed, 139 wounded, and 3 missing; a total of 162, out of 717 present in action. Soon after this battle the famous Iowa Brigade -- Eleventh, Thirteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa-- was organized, and placed under command of Colonel Crocker. This brigade participated in the Siege of Corinth, and on October 4th, 1862, in the battle at that place, in which the Thirteenth lost 1 killed and 14 wounded. During the Vicksburg campaign the brigade was under the command of Colonel Hall, and served in McArthur's Division, Seventeenth Corps. The autumn of 1863, and most of the following winter, was passed in camp at Vicksburg. In February, 1864, it was engaged in Sherman's March to Meridian, Miss., after which the regiment, having reënlisted, went home on a "veteran furlough." The reënlistments numbered 379, officers and men, which, with the recruits, preserved the organization after its term of service had expired. Upon its return it entered the Atlanta campaign, the Iowa Brigade serving as the Third Brigade of Gresham's (4th) Division, Seventeenth Corps. At the battle of Atlanta --July 21st and 22d -- the regiment, under Colonel Shane, was in the thickest of the fight, losing 247 in killed, wounded and missing, out of 410 present for duty; Major Wm. A. Walker, a gallant officer, was killed in the second day's fight. The regiment marched through Georgia to the Sea, and was the first to enter Columbia, S.C. (February 17, 1865), its colors being the first to wave over the State Capitol.
Fox's Regimental Losses

http://www.civilwarreference.com/regiments/regiments.php?statesID=Iowa


11th IA, 13th IA, 15th IA, and 16th IA Regiments Brigade was also known as "Crocker's Grayhounds." 15th Ohio Lt Arty, 2nd & 3rd Illinois Lt Arty & the 1st MN Lt Arty would all be associated w/ the Iowa Brigade at various times. BUt I believe the 15th Ohio was generally the battery attached to them.

 

[johan_steele]

There were at least 4 Brigades made up of nothing but Iowa boys. Crocker's is probably the most famous.

4th, 9th, 25/26th & 30/31st IA 1st IA Lt Arty were 2nd Brigade 1st Div of 15th Corps is the "other" Iowa Brigade.

I thought there was only one, and that was in the AOtT and acquired its name post Shiloh.
What are the others?

 

[johan_steele]

8th, 12th & 35th IA VI was another 3rd Brigade 3rd Div 15th Corps w/ 2nd IA lt Arty Attached was another.

 

[Borderruffian]

At liitle more on Crockers.

"Prominent among these was "Hall's Iowa Brigade," of the Seventeenth Corps, composed of the 11th, 13th, 15th, and 16th Regiments. These troops were brigaded thus in April, 1862, under command of Colonel [Marcellus] Crocker of the 13th Iowa, and served together until mustered out in July, 1865. * * * [The brigade] fought in all the battles of the Army of the Tennessee, in the Vicksburg and Atlanta campaigns, marched with Sherman to the Sea and through the Carolinas, and took part in the final grand review at Washington." Fox, William F., Regimental Losses In the American Civil War, 1861-1865. Albany, NY: Albany Publishing Co., 1989; reprint, Dayton, OH: Morningside Bookshop, 1985, Ch. 12, p. 519.


From this link

http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/mifflinj.htm