94th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 94th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= August 20, 1862 to July 17, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Prairie Grove
Siege of Vicksburg
Fort Morgan
Operations against Mobile, Alabama

The 94th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed the "McLean Regiment," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 94th Illinois Infantry was organized in McLean County, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 20, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 17, 1865 at Galveston, Texas..

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 9 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 162 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 175 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#94th 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 William W. Orme - Promoted to brigadier general on April 4, 1863.
*Colonel John McNulta - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/094-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]