14th_Illinois_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment

14th Illinois Infantry Regiment

14th Illinois Infantry Regiment

Military unit

The 14th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Private E.W. McIntosh of Co. E, 14th Illinois Infantry Regiment in uniform with guitar and bugle in front of painted backdrop. On verso: Andersonville Prison Survivor, E.W. McIntosh, Decatur, Ills. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Service

The 14th Illinois Infantry was mustered into Federal service for a three-year enlistment on May 25, 1861, at Jacksonville, Illinois.

The regiment was consolidated with 15th Illinois Infantry on July 1, 1864, as the 14th and 15th Battalion Illinois Volunteer Infantry but reorganized as the 14th Illinois on April 28, 1865.

The regiment was mustered out on September 18, 1865, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 62 enlisted soldiers killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 160 enlisted who died of disease, for a total of 223 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

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See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf1.htm The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  2. [2]
    http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/014-fs.htm Illinois in the Cvil war website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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