101st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 101st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 101st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois flag
dates= September 2, 1862 to June 7, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
The 101st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 101st Illinois Infantry was organized at Jacksonville, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 2, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on June 7, 1865 and discharged at Springfield, Illinois on June 21, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 3 officers and 47 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 118 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 169 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#101st 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 Charles H. Fox - Resigned May 1, 1864.
* [Lieutenant Colonel John B. Lesage - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/101-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
Notable regiment members
* Napoleon Bonaparte Brown, major
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]
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