43rd_Illinois_Infantry_Regiment

43rd Illinois Infantry Regiment

43rd Illinois Infantry Regiment

Military unit


The 43rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as the "Koerner Regiment" after Gustav Körner, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 43rd Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 12, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on November 30, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 75 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 161 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 246 fatalities.[1]

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Notes

  1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#43rd 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. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/043-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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