75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

75th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 75th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= September 2, 1862 to June 12, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Stone's River
Siege of Chattanooga
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Jonesboro
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville

The 75th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

75th Regiment Illinois was organized at Dixon, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 2, 1862.

The regiment was discharged from service on June 12, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment lost 3 officers and 94 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds and 5 officers and 103 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 205 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#75th 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 George Ryan - Resigned [{December 20] , 1862.
*Colonel John Bennett - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/075-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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