The Civil War in the East

28th Iowa Infantry Regiment

The 28th Iowa Infantry Regiment lost 6 officers and 76 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 186 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1862

 

Organized at Iowa City

October 10

Mustered in and ordered to Helena, Ark.

November 20

Arrived Helena, Ark. and attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri

November 27-
December 5

Hovey's Expedition from Helena, Ark., to Grenada, Miss. attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of the Tennessee

1863

January 13-19

Gotman's Expedition up White River attached to 2nd Brigade, 12th Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee

February 14-April 5

Expedition from Helena to Yazoo Pass by Moon Lake, Yazoo Pass and Coldwater and Tallahatchie Rivers

March 13-April 5

Operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood

April 5-11

Expedition to St. Francis River

April 11-13

Moved to Milliken's Bend, La.

April 25-30

Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf

May 1

Battle of Port Gibson

May 2-3

Bayou Pierrie

May 12-13

Fourteen-Mile Creek

May 16

Battle of Champion's Hill

May 17

Big Black River

May 18-July 4

Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.

May 19

Assault on Vicksburg

May 22

Assault on Vicksburg

July 5-10

Advance on Jackson, Miss. attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee

July 10-17

Siege of Jackson

August 2

Ordered to New Orleans, La.

August

At Carrollton and Brashear City attached to Dept. of the Gulf

October 3-
November 30

Western Louisiana Campaign

November 3

Vermillionville, Carrion Crow Bayou

November

At New Iberia

December 17

Moved to New Orleans

1864

January 7

To Madisonville

March 14-May 22

Red River Campaign

March 14-26

Advance from Franklin to Alexandria

April 8

Battle of Sabine Cross Roads

April 9

Pleasant Hill

April 23-24

Cane River Crossing

April 26-May 13

At Alexandria

May 5

Graham's Plantation

May 13-20

Retreat to Morganaza

May 16

Mansura

May 30-June 6

Expedition from Morganza to the Atchafalaya attached to District of LaFourche, Dept. of the Gulf

July

Moved to Fortress Monroe, thence to Washington, D. C. attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf

August 7-
November 28

Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign attached to 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division

September 19

Battle of Opequan, Winchester

September 22

Fisher's Hill

October 19

Battle of Cedar Creek

October-December

Duty in the Shenandoah Valley

December

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Corps

1865

January 6-20

Moved to Baltimore, Md.; then to Savannah, Ga. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Grover's Division, District of Savannah, Ga., Dept. of the South

March 4

Moved to Hilton Head, S.C. and attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Army of Ohio

March 6

To Wilmington, N. C.

March 8-10

To Morehead City and New Berne

March 12

To Morehead City

April 9

To Goldsboro

May 1-4

To Savannah, Ga., attached to District of Savannah, Dept. of the South

May-June

Duty in Georgia and South Carolina

July 31

Mustered out