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{{Infobox military unit
|unit_name= 39th Iowa Infantry Regiment
| image=Flag of Iowa.svg
| image_size = 100
|caption=Iowa state flag
|dates= November 24, 1862, to August 2, 1865
|country= [[United States]]
|allegiance= [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]
|branch= [[Infantry]]
|equipment=
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|battles= [[Battle of Parker's Cross Roads]]<BR>[[Battle of Resaca]]<BR>[[Battle of Allatoona]]<BR>[[Sherman's March to the Sea|March to the Sea]]<BR>[[Carolinas Campaign|Campaign of the Carolinas]]<br/>[[Battle of Bentonville]]
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The '''39th Iowa Infantry Regiment''' was an [[infantry]] [[regiment]] that served in the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War]].

==Service==
The 39th Iowa Infantry was organized at [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] and [[Davenport, Iowa|Davenport]], [[Iowa]] and mustered in for three years of Federal service  on November 24, 1862.

Attached to 3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 17th Army Corps, Dept. of Tennessee, to January, 1863. 3rd Brigade, District of Corinth, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps, to September, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 15th Army Corps, to August, 1865.

Moved to [[Cairo, Illinois|Cairo, Ill.]], December 12–14, 1862; thence to [[Columbus, Kentucky|Columbus, Ky.]], December 16. Defense of [[Jackson, Tennessee|Jackson, Tenn.]], and pursuit of [[Nathan Bedford Forrest|Forrest]] December 18, 1862, to January 3, 1863. [[Battle of Parker's Cross Roads|Parker's Cross Roads]] December 30–31, 1862.

Moved to [[Corinth, Mississippi|Corinth, Miss.]], January 6, 1863, and duty there until November, 1863. Dodge's Expedition into Northern Alabama April 15-May 8. Great Bear Creek and Cherokee Station April 17. [[Tuscumbia, Alabama|Tuscumbia]] April 22–23. [[Town Creek, Alabama|Town Creek]] April 28.

March to Pulaski, Tenn., November 2–12, 1963. Guard duty at Reynolds Station and along railroad until January 21, 1864, and at Pulaski until March 12.

Moved to [[Athens, Alabama|Athens, Ala.]], March 12, and to [[Chattanooga, Tennessee|Chattanooga, Tenn.]], April 30, 1864.

[[Atlanta Campaign|Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign]] May 1 to September 8, 1864. Demonstration on [[Resaca, Georgia|Resaca]] May 8–13. Snake Creek Gap and Sugar Valley May 9–10. [[Battle of Resaca]] May 13–14. Ley's Ferry, Oostenaula River, May 14–15. Rome Cross Roads May 16. [[Kingston, Georgia|Kingston]] May 19. Moved to [[Rome, Georgia|Rome]] May 22 and duty there until August 15. Expeditions after [[Joseph Wheeler|Wheeler]] August 15-September 16. Moved to [[Allatoona, Georgia|Allatoona]] October 4. [[Battle of Allatoona]] October 5.

Moved to [[Rome, Georgia|Rome]] October 9, 1864. Reconnaissance and skirmishes on Gave Springs Road October 12–13. Etowah River October 13.

[[Sherman's March to the Sea|March to the Sea]] November 15-December 10, 1864. [[Savannah–Ogeechee Canal|Ogeechee Canal]] December 9.  Siege of [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] December 10–21.

[[Carolinas Campaign|Campaign of the Carolinas]] January to April, 1865. [[Salkehatchie River|Salkehatchie Swamps]], S.C. February 3–5. South Edisto River February 9. North Edisto River February 12–13. [[Columbia, South Carolina, in the American Civil War|Columbia]] February 15–17. Lynch's Creek February 25–26. [[Battle of Bentonville]] N. C., March 20–21. Occupation of [[Goldsboro, North Carolina|Goldsboro]] March 24 Advance on [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] April 9–13. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. [[Bennett Place|Bennett's House]] April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army.

March to Washington, D.C. via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 30, 1865. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville, Ky., June.

The regiment was mustered out on August 2, 1865.

==Total strength and casualties==
A total of  1064 men served in the 39th Iowa at one time or another during its existence.<ref>http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil708.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., '''Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1'''</ref>
It suffered 6 officers and 58 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 134 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 200 fatalities.<ref>http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf4.htm#39thinf The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. '''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'''. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.</ref>

==Commanders==
*[[Colonel]] Henry J. B. Cummings<ref>Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., '''Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1'''</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Iowa Civil War Units]]
*[[Iowa in the American Civil War]]

==Notes==
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==References==
*[http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]
*[http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniainf4.htm#39thinf The Civil War Archive Union Regimental Histories]
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=70QIAAAAQAAJ&dq=39th+Iowa&pg=PA529 History of Iowa Regiments]
*[http://civilwarnotebook.blogspot.com/search/label/39th%20Iowa%20Infantry Civil War Notebook (Blog)]

[[Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Iowa]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1862]]
[[Category:1862 establishments in Iowa]]
[[Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865]]