31st Iowa Infantry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Davenport and mustered in October 13, 1862. Moved to Helena, Ark., November 1-20, 1862. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Eastern Arkansas, Dept. of Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 11th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, Dept. of Tennessee, to September, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 15th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

SERVICE.--Hovey's Expedition from Helena, Ark., to Coldwater, Miss., November 27-December 5, 1862. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 22, 1862, to January 2, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28, 1862. Chickasaw Bluffs December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post January 3-10, 1863. Assault on and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17-23, and duty there until April. Expedition to Greenville, Black Bayou and Deer Creek April 2-14. Deer Creek April 7. Black Bayou April 10. Demonstration on Haines and Snyder's Bluffs April 28-May 2. Moved to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf May 2-14. Fourteen-Mile Creek May 12-13. Jackson, Miss., May 14.

May 18-July 4, 1863 - Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
- May 19, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
- May 22, 1863 - Assault on Vicksburg, Mississippi
Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.
Siege of Jackson July 10-17.
Briar Creek, near Canton, July 17.
At Big Black until September 22.
September 26-November 20, 1863 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Chattanooga, Tennessee
Operations on the Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama October 20-29.
Cherokee Station October 21 and 29.
Cane Creek October 26.
Tuscumbia October 26-27.
November 23-27, 1863 - The Chattanooga/Ringgold Campaign
- November 23-25, 1863 - Battles of Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Lookout Mountain November 23-24;
- Mission Ridge November 25;
- Ringgold Gap, Taylor's Ridge, November 27.
March to relief of Knoxville November 28-December 8.
Garrison duty in Alabama until April, 1864.
May 1-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
- May 8-13, 1864 - Demonstration on Resaca, Georgia
- Snake Creek Gap May 10-12.
  - May 13, 1864 - Combat at Resaca, Georgia
- May 14-May 15, 1864 - Battle of Resaca, Georgia
- May 25-June 5, 1864 - Operations in Bartow County, Georgia
- Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
- Bushy Mountain June 15-17.
- Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
- Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
- Chattahoochie River July 6-17.
- July 22, 1864 - Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
- July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
- Ezra Chapel, Hood's second sortie, July 28.
- Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
- Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
- Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
- Pursuit of Hood into Alabama October 1-26.
- Ships Gap October 16.
November 15-December 21, 1864 - The Savannah Campaign
- Griswoldsville November 23.
- December 10-21, 1864 - Siege of Savannah, Georgia
January 1-April 26, 1865 - The Carolinas Campaign
- Reconnaissance to Salkehatchie River January 25.
- Salkehatchie Swamps, S.C., February 3-5.
- South Edisto River February 9.
- North Edisto River February 12-13.
- Columbia February 15-17.
- Lynch's Creek February 25-26.
- Battle of Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21.
- ccupation of Goldsboro March 24.
- Advance on Raleigh April 9-13.
- Occupation of Raleigh April 14.
- Bennett's House April 26.
  - Surrender of Johnston and his army.
March to Washington, D.C., via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 20.
Grand Review May 24.
Mustered out June 27, 1865.