Total Strength and Casualties
A total of 1081 men served in the 34th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 1 officer and 11 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 244 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 258 fatalities.
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