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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.
Pages in category "People of Illinois in the American Civil War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 326 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois (203 P) Pages in category "Illinois in the American Civil War" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois. This series of books give an overview of all military units provided the State of Illinois and listing of rosters of each unit. Volume 1:
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 45th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, the "Washburn Lead Mine Regiment", was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.In response to President Lincoln's call for 75,000 volunteers, it was organized at Galena, Illinois.
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]
Constituted 1 July 1897 in the Illinois National Guard as a squadron of cavalry and organized from existing troops. Expanded and mustered into Federal service 21 May 1898 at Springfield as the 1st Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; mustered out of Federal service 11 October 1898 at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Reorganized in 1899 in the Illinois National ...