133rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 133rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= May 31, 1864 to September 24, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles=

The 133rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days.

ervice

The 133rd Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on May 31, 1864 for a one hundred day enlistment. The 133rd guarded prisoners at the Rock Island Arsenal.

The regiment was mustered out of service on September 24, 1864.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 16 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 16 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#133rd 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 Thaddeus Phillips - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/133-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]