Name of Regiment

Date of Organization

Muster Date

Regiment Type

8th Cavalry Regiment Iowa

30 September 1863

13 August 1865

Cavalry

Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded

Officers Died of Disease or Accident

Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded

Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident

3

37

2

116

List of Soldiers

Regimental History
Eighth Cavalry IOWA
(3 YEARS)

Eighth Cavalry. Cols., Joseph B. Dorr, Horatio G. Barner;
Lieut.-Col., Horatio G. Barner, Majs., J. J. Brown, James D.
Thompson, A. J. Price, Richard Root, John H. Isett, E. Shurtz,
J. W. Moore, John Dance, George W. Burns.

The 8th cavalry saw little of real war until the spring of
1864, when it started with Sherman in the celebrated campaign
for Atlanta. The regiment had been organized late in the
previous autumn at Davenport. It left Iowa in the middle of
October and by the middle of November was stationed at Waverly
and other points west of Nashville, Tenn., where it remained
on guard and garrison duty all the winter, with little
opportunity for showing the pluck of its soldiers and no
chance at all for distinction.

May-day, 1864, brought on the new campaign, and the 8th IA was
made a part of the 1st brigade of McCook's division of
cavalry. In all that arduous campaign the regiment was
constantly at the front, and when the Confederates, after
weeks of constant skirmishing and battles, at last fell back
behind the Chattahoochee, the 8th Iowa cavalry was the first
troop across the river after them. So the fighting and the
skirmishing went on around Atlanta, and then came that
luckless raid of Gen. McCook's to the Macon railroad, in which
the regiment was captured near Newnan, only a few escaping
through the woods to tell how heroically the command had tried
to save itself.

The late autumn found Col. Dorr exchanged, and with his
regiment, again ready for battle against Gen. Hood, who was
then invading Tennessee. It was engaged near Franklin, but
quietly fell back with the main army to take an important part
in the great battle and victory of Nashville. It participated
in a charge on the first day of the battle and in the rapid
pursuit of Hood, in which the whole Confederate army was
nearly annihilated, the 8th cavalry did its full share of hard
riding.

Late in March, 1865, the regiment was at Chickasaw, Ala.,
eager to join the other Iowa cavalry there in the grandest
raid of the war -- the march of Wilson to Selma, Columbus and
Macon. On Aug. 13, the regiment was mustered out at Macon and
started for Iowa, its honorable and patriotic career complete.
Its losses were as follows: deaths from battle, 16; deaths
from disease 168; wounded, 15; discharged, 64.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 4

Battles Fought

Fought at Dallas, GA.
Fought on 13 December 1863 at Waverly, TN.
Fought on 20 December 1863.
Fought on 22 December 1863.
Fought on 03 January 1864 at Waverly, TN.
Fought on 22 January 1864 at Waverly, TN.
Fought on 22 February 1864 at Section 49, N. & N. W. R. R., TN.
Fought on 23 February 1864 at Sec. N.N.W.R.R., TN.
Fought on 06 March 1864 at Waverly, TN.
Fought on 06 April 1864 at Pleasant Ridge, GA.
Fought on 15 April 1864 at Cleveland, TN.
Fought on 07 May 1864 at Varnell's Station, GA.
Fought on 09 May 1864 at Buzzard's Roost, GA.
Fought on 09 May 1864 at Potato Hill, GA.
Fought on 13 May 1864 at Tilton, GA.
Fought on 15 May 1864 at Tilton, GA.
Fought on 19 May 1864 at Cassville, GA.
Fought on 24 May 1864.
Fought on 28 May 1864 at Burnt Church, GA.
Fought on 01 June 1864 at Kingston, GA.
Fought on 09 June 1864 at Lost Mountain, GA.
Fought on 17 June 1864 at Lost Mountain, GA.
Fought on 20 June 1864 at Powder Springs, GA.
Fought on 13 July 1864 at Campbellsville, TN.
Fought on 18 July 1864 at Chattahoochee River, TN.
Fought on 22 July 1864 at Atlanta, GA.
Fought on 29 July 1864 at Lovejoy Station, GA.
Fought on 29 July 1864 at Newnan, GA.
Fought on 29 July 1864 at Palmetto, GA.
Fought on 30 July 1864 at Atlanta, GA.
Fought on 30 July 1864 at Franklin, GA.
Fought on 30 July 1864 at Lovejoy Station, GA.
Fought on 30 July 1864 at Newnan, GA.
Fought on 03 September 1864 at Campbellsville, TN.
Fought on 16 September 1864 at Pulaski, TN.
Fought on 27 September 1864 at Pulaski, TN.
Fought on 07 October 1864 at Cypress Creek, AL.
Fought on 23 October 1864 at Florence, AL.
Fought on 30 October 1864 at Florence, AL.
Fought on 30 October 1864 at Shoal Creek, AL.
Fought on 23 November 1864 at Florence, AL.
Fought on 28 November 1864 at Columbia, TN.
Fought on 29 November 1864 at Franklin, TN.
Fought on 30 November 1864 at Franklin, TN.
Fought on 15 December 1864 at Nashville, TN.
Fought on 17 December 1864 at Franklin, TN.
Fought on 20 January 1865 at Iuka, MS.
Fought on 01 April 1865 at Elyton, AL.
Fought on 03 April 1865 at Tuscaloosa, AL.
Fought on 04 April 1865 at Tuscaloosa, AL.
Fought on 05 April 1865.
Fought on 06 April 1865.
Fought on 06 April 1865 at Pleasant Ridge, AL.
Fought on 06 April 1865 at Sipsey Creek, AL.
Fought on 06 April 1865 at Tuscaloosa, AL.
Fought on 10 April 1865.
Fought on 15 April 1865 at Macon, GA.
Fought on 23 April 1865 at Blue Mountain, AL.
Fought on 24 April 1865 at Oxford Furnace, AL.

Samuel Hursh