143rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 143rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= June 11, 1864 to September 26, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
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The 143rd 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 143rd Illinois Infantry was organized at Mattoon, Illinois, and mustered into Federal service on June 11, 1864, for a one-hundred-day enlistment. The 143rd served in garrisons, first in the Memphis, Tennessee, area and later at Helena, Arkansas.

The regiment was mustered out of service on September 26, 1864.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 55 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 55 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#143rd 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 Dudley C. Smith - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/143-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]