Total Strength and Casualties
A total of 1442 men served in the 8th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 15 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 3 officers and 176 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 194 fatalities.
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