82nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 82nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 82nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= October 23, 1862 to June 16, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment= Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Wauhatchie
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Resaca
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville
The 82nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as the "2nd Hecker Regiment," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 82nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Springfield, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 23, 1862.
The regiment was mustered out on June 16, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 4 officers and 98 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 60 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 162 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf7.htm#82nd 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. Salomon - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/082-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
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]
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