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Illinois Rebels - A Civil War Unit History of G Company, 15th Tennessee Regiment Volunteer Infantry (1996, Guild Press of Indiana: Carmel, Indiana) Grossman, James R.. Ann Durkin Keating, and Janice L. Reiff, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2005) online version; Hicken, Victor, Illinois in the Civil War, University of Illinois Press. 1991.
During the Civil War, over 250,000 soldiers from Illinois served in the Union Army, the fourth most by state. Starting with President Lincoln's first call for troops and continuing throughout the war, Illinois sent 150 infantry regiments; they were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry regiments also served as well as two ...
Isaac Yost of Company C, 118th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Flag captured by the 118th Illinois regiment from the 11th Tennessee. The 118th Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. On June 10, 1863, the regiment was converted to mounted infantry.
The 140th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men , an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days.
The 112th Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized at Peoria in September 1862 and garrisoned places in Kentucky until Spring 1863. Beginning in April 1863, the regiment served as mounted infantry during the Knoxville campaign, before
The 47th Illinois Volunteers were part of the fighting, which resulted in combined losses of 828 killed and more than 3,800 wounded and missing. [1] The 47th Illinois Infantry was organized at Peoria, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 16, 1861. [2]
The 10th Illinois was made part of the Army of the Frontier and was stationed at Wilson Creek, Missouri. [2] During the war, the regiment lost one officer and 24 enlisted men in combat. Three officers and 262 enlisted men died of disease, for a total of 290 fatalities over the course of the war. [2] [4]
The 119th Illinois Infantry was organized in Quincy, Illinois beginning in September 1862 and mustered in for three years service on October 7, 1862 under the command of Colonel Thomas Jefferson Kinney. The regiment was attached to District of Jackson, Tennessee, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to December 1862.