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Private Charles Earl Bowles, Company B - post-Civil War western stagecoach robber known as "Black Bart" Sergeant Martin K. Davis , Company H - Medal of Honor —Participating in a diversionary " forlorn hope " attack on Confederate defenses, 22 May 1863.
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.
77th Regiment Illinois was organized at Peoria, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 3, 1862.. Serving under Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, the 77th Illinois Volunteers participated in the bloody initial phase of the Vicksburg Campaign, during which several days of futile Union attacks were launched before a protracted siege was made and won. [3]
From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 14th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was one of the ten infantry regiments authorized on May 2, 1861, by the Illinois Ten ...
The 11th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In April 1861, it was formed as a three-month volunteer unit , and in July 1861 it was reorganized as a three-year unit, in which role it served until the end of the war.
The 29th Colored Infantry was formed in Quincy, Illinois, in April 1964 and was Illinois’ only Black regiment during the Civil War, wrote Olar. Eight of the Tazewell County residents were from ...
The 125th Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Soon after mustering into Federal service in September 1862, the regiment fought at Perryville .
63rd Regiment Illinois was organized at Anna, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on April 10, 1862. The regiment was discharged from service on July 13, 1865. Total strength and casualties