83rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 83rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= August 21, 1862 to July 5, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=

The 83rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 83rd Illinois Infantry was organized at Monmouth, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 21, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 26, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee and discharged in Chicago, Illinois on July 5, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 34 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officers and 82 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 121 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf7.htm#83rd 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 Frederick Hecker - Resigned March 21, 1864.
*Lieutenant Colonel Edward S. Solomon - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/082-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil 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]