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72nd Regiment Illinois was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 23, 1862. The regiment was discharged from service on August 7, 1865. Total strength and casualties
On August 7, 1862, in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for troops to fight in the American Civil War, a muster roll was begun in the office of Judge John H. Howe in Kewanee, in Henry County, Illinois. Company A and Company F were from the village of Kewanee. Company B was recruited in Batavia and Lodi, in Kane county.
The 51st Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on December 24, 1861. The regiment was mustered out on September 25, 1865. Total strength and casualties
The 42nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on July 22, 1861. Left state for St. Louis, Mo., September 20, 1861. Attached to Dept. of Missouri, to Februa
The 134th 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 and known as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days.
The 9th Illinois Cavalry was mustered into service at Chicago, Illinois, on November 30, 1861.. The regiment was mustered out on October 31, 1865, at Selma, Alabama.. Future governor of Minnesota Samuel Rinnah Van Sant served in the regiment, as did future Nebraska governor Albinus Nance and future Wisconsin legislator Stewart J. Bailey.
In military organization, the term muster is the process or event of accounting for members in a military unit. This practice of inspections led to the coining of the English idiom pass muster, meaning being sufficient. When a unit is created, it is "mustered in" and when it is disbanded, it is "mustered out".
On 27 December, nine companies of the One Hundred and Twenty-second, nine companies of Thirty-ninth Iowa Infantry, Fiftieth Indiana Infantry, and a part of Seventh Wisconsin Battery, with three pieces of artillery, and 40 men of Eighteenth Illinois Infantry, the latter mounted, whole under command of Colonel Cyrus L. Dunham, Fiftieth Indiana, marched from Trenton to head off the cavalry force ...