14th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

14th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 14th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry (3 Year)


caption=Illinois flag
dates= May 25, 1861 to September 18, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Shiloh
Battle of the Hatchie
Siege of Vicksburg

Battle of Bentonville

The 14th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 14th Illinois Infantry was mustered into Federal service for a three year enlistment on May 25, 1861 at Jacksonville, Illinois.
[The regiment was consolidated with 15th Illinois Infantry on July 1, 1864] as the 14th and 15th Battalion Illinois Volunteer Infantry but reorganized as the 14th Illinois on April 28, 1865.

The regiment was mustered out on September 18, 1865 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 62 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 160 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 223 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf1.htm 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 John M. Palmer - promoted to brigadier general.
*Colonel Cyrus Hall [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/014-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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