93rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 93rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= October 13, 1862 to July 7, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Raymond
Battle of Jackson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Jackson
Battle of Allatoona
Battle of Bentonville

The 93rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 93rd Illinois Infantry was mustered into state service at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 13, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 23, 1865 and discharged at Chicago, Illinois on July 7, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 147 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 147 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 294 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#93rd 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 Holden Putnam - killed November 25, 1863. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/093-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]