13th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 13th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= April 21, 1861 to June 18, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of

Bentonville

The 13th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed "Fremont's Grey Hounds," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 13th Illinois Infantry was mustered into state service at Dixon, Illinois on April 21, 1861 and mustered into Federal service on May 24, 1861 for a three-year term. The regiment was mustered out on June 18, 1864.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 6 officers and 61 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 5 officers and 123 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 192 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 John B. Wyman - killed at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou December 28,
1862.
*Colonel Adam B. Gorgas - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/013-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]