98th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 98th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= September 3, 1862 to July 29, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry (Mounted)
equipment= Spencer Rifle & Carbines Battle of Hoover's Gap
Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Resaca
Siege of Atlanta

The 98th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry , later the 98th Regiment Illinois Mounted Infantrywas an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 98th Illinois Infantry was organized at Centralia, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 3, 1862.

The regiment was converted to mounted infantry on March 8, 1863.

The regiment was mustered out on June 27, 1865 and discharged at Springfield, Illinois on July 7, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 30 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds 5 officers and 136 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 171 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#98th 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 J. Funkhouser - Discharged due to wounds July 5, 1864. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/098-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]