97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 97th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= September 16, 1862 to July 29, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment= Fort Hindman
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Jackson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Fort Blakely

The 97th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 97th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 16, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 29, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 28 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 200 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 233 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#97th 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 Friend S. Rutherford - Discharged June 15, 1864. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/097-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]