99th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 99th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= August 23, 1862 to August 9, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment= Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River
Siege of Vicksburg
Siege of Jackson
Fort Blakely

The 99th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 99th Illinois Infantry was organized at Florence, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 23, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on July 31, 1865 and discharged at Springfield, Illinois on August 9, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 47 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds 1 officer and 120 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 172 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#99th 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 George W.K. Bailey - Mustered out December 16, 1864. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/099-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
*Thomas J. Higgins, a soldier in the 99th Illinois who won the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Vicksburg.

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]