Sophronia Smith Hunt was an American woman who disguised herself as a man and secretly served as a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

[1] Her first soldier husband died of wounds received at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry.

A total of 1485 men served in the 29th Iowa at one time or another during its existence.

[2] It suffered 1 officer and 42 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 266 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 310 fatalities.

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