Those making the excess were transferred to the Thirty-fifth. On the 18th of September the regiment was mustered into the service of the United States, and was henceforward officially known as the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, though it was long called by the public and by the newspaper correspondents the Temperance Regiment.
Those responsible for the surplus were reassigned to the Thirty-fifth. On September 18th, the regiment joined the United States military service, and from then on, it was officially known as the Twenty-fourth Iowa Infantry, although it had been informally referred to by the general public and the media as the Temperance Regiment.