6th Iowa Cavalry Regiment

6th Iowa Cavalry Regiment
6th Iowa Cavalry Regiment
	Iowa state flag
Active	January 31, 1863, to October 17, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Cavalry
Engagements	American Indian Wars Battle of Killdeer Mountain; Battle of the Badlands; Battle of Whitestone Hill;

The 6th Iowa Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the Indian Wars.

Service

The 6th Iowa Cavalry was mustered into Federal service at Davenport, Iowa, for a three-year enlistment between January 31 to March 5, 1863. In 1864, eleven of the regiment's twelve companies were part of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Pollock's 1st Brigade of Brigadier General Alfred Sully's District of Iowa. In this organization, these companies participated in the Northwestern Indian Expedition, fighting at the Battle of Killdeer Mountain and in the Battle of the Badlands. The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on October 17, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 1420 men served in the 6th Iowa at one time or another during its existence.^[1] It suffered 1 officer and 21 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 74 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 97 fatalities.^[2]

Commanders

Colonel David S. Wilson
Colonel Samuel McLean Pollock^[3]

Notes

^ http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil606.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1
^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniacav.htm#6thcav The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
^ Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1