15th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 15th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= April 25, 1861 to September 16, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Vicksburg

The 15th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 15th Illinois Infantry was mustered at Freeport, Illinois on April 25, 1861.

The regiment was consolidated with the 14th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry to form the 14th and 15th Illinois Battalion Infantry on July 1, 1864 and was finally mustered out of service on September 16, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 6 officers and 81 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 5 officers and 135 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 227 fatalities. [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.]

Commanders

*Colonel Thomas J. Turner - resigned November 2, 1862.
*Colonel George C. Rogers [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/015-fs.htm Illinois in the Cvil 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]