91st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 91st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= September 8, 1862 to June 28, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=

The 91st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 91st Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 8, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 12, 1865 and discharged at Chicago, Illinois on June 28, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 12 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 131 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 144 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf7.htm#91st 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 Henry M. Day - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/091-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]