84th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 84th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= September 1, 1862 to June 16, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stone's River
Battle of Chickamauga
Siege of Chattanooga
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville

The 84th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 84th Illinois Infantry was organized at Quincy, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 1, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 8, 1865 in Nashville, Tennessee and discharged on June 16, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 120 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officers and 144 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 269 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf7.htm#84th 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 Lewis H. Waters - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/084-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

References

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