95th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 95th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= September 4, 1862 to August 17, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment= Battle of Raymond
Battle of Jackson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Pleasant Hill
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro

The 95th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 95th Illinois Infantry was organized at Rockford, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 4, 1862.

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

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 7 officers and 77 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 204 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 289 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#95th 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 Lawrence S. Church - Resigned January 24, 1863.
*Colonel Thomas W. Humphrey - Killed in action June 10, 1864.
*Colonel Leander Blanden - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/095-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]