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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 ...
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.
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.
The 44th Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 25, 1861. The regiment was mustered out on November 30, 1865. Total strength and casualties
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.
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 ...
Wagoner John M. Moore of Co. K, 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. The 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.