War losses

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Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/21/2009 at 12:46:08

Jackson Sentinel
July 1, 1919

What War Has Cost Iowa

Iowa lost 12,368 men in the Civil war, 3580 in the World war just closed and 164 in the Spanish-American war, according to figures of the state historical department and state adjutant general’s office. In each of these wars more men died of disease than were killed in action.

In the civil war there were 78,059 Iowa men in the service. Of this number 12,368 were dead before the war closed, 8,848 had been wounded in battle and 9,987 discharged for wounds received or ruined health.

The losses in the Spanish-American war were largely due to disease. The forty-ninth infantry, with 13,685 men, lost fifty-four, through diseases. The fiftieth infantry, of 1,389 men, lost forty-two of diseases. The Fifty-first infantry, of 1,344 men, lost one in action, forty-one through disease while thirty-eight were wounded. The Fifty-second infantry lost thirty-six men through disease. The records of other organizations are not at hand.

In the world war just closed there were 98,000 Iowa men in the army. Their losses were as follows:
Killed in action or died of wounds – 1550.
Died of disease in France – 931.
Died of disease in the United States – 595.
Died of accident in France – 86.
Died of accident in United States camps – 54.