Total Strength and Casualties
A total of 1064 men served in the 39th Iowa at one time or another during its existence. 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.
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