Thirteenth Iowa Infantry

In this regiment four men were enrolled at 16 and four at 17 years of age. There were none under 16 years of age. Two hundred and sixty-three were enrolled at 18 years. Four hundred and eighty-three were under 21 years of age and four hundred and six were over 30 years old. Those who would not have been reached by the present draft law numbered eight hundred and eighty-nine. The number who were 25 or older numbered seven hundred and sixty-five, and these amounted to more than sixty per cent of the men in the regiment. According to the official record the percentage should have been less than two. Those 40 years old or more numbered one hundred and seven. Twenty-five were 44; two were 45; one was 48; and one was 56.

SOURCE: “Ages of the Soldiers in the Civil War,” Iowa Journal of History, Volume 16, p. 393