85th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 85th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois flag
dates= August 27, 1862 to June 5, 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 Jonesboro
Battle of Bentonville

The 85th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 85th Illinois Infantry was organized at Peoria, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 27, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 5, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 86 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officers and 131 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 222 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf7.htm#85th 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 Robert S. Moore - Resigned due to disability June 14, 1863.
*Colonel Caleb G. Dilworth - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/085-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]