24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name = 24th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption = Illinois state flag
dates = July 8, 1861 to August 6, 1864
country = United States
allegiance = Union
branch = Infantry
equipment =

The 24th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, also known as the 1st Hecker Jaeger Regiment, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was made up almost exclusively of German and Hungarian immigrants. It was the first unit mobilised for the war in Chicago, and was composed of many Forty-Eighters, veterans of the revolutions of 1848 in Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Service

The 24th Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on July 8, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on August 6, 1864.

Battles and campaigns they participated in

*Battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862
*Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863
*Battle of Chickamauga, September 18 - September 20, 1863
*Tullahoma Campaign

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 3 officers and 86 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 82 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 173 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf2.htm#24th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. - retrieved June 25, 2007.]

Prominent personnel

*Colonel Frederick Hecker - resigned on December 23, 1861.
*Colonel Goza Mihalotzy - killed on March 11, 1864. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/024-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls - retrieved June 26, 2007. ]
*Colonel Emil Frey

See 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]
* [http://www.burhop.net/24illinois/Home.htm 24th Illinois Infantry Regiment] by Ray Burhop, accessed 8 December 2007


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