Service
The 45th Iowa Infantry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa, and mustered in for one hundred days of Federal service on May 25, 1864, as part of a plan to raise short-term regiments for service as rear area garrison duty to release veteran troops for Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. The 45th Iowa garrisoned strategic points on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad.
The regiment was mustered out at Keokuk on September 15, 1864.
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