132nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 132nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 132nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= June 1, 1864 to October 17, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
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The 132nd 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.
ervice
The 132nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois, and mustered into Federal service on June 1, 1864, for a one-hundred-day enlistment. The 132nd relieved veteran troops and performed garrison duty at Paducah, Kentucky, until October 1864.
The regiment was mustered out of service on October 17, 1864.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 12 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 12 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#132nd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel Thomas C. Pickett - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/132-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls ]
ee also
*List of Illinois Civil War Units
*Illinois in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]
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