25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 25th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 25th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= August 4, 1861 to September 5, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
The 25th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 25th Illinois Infantry was organized at Saint Louis, Missouri and mustered into Federal service on August 4, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on September 5, 1864.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 3 officers and 80 enlistedmen who were 148 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 232 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf2.htm#25th 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.]
Commanders
*Colonel William N. Coler - resigned on August 31, 1862.
*Colonel Caswell P. Ford - resigned on April 14, 1863.
*Colonel Thomas D. Williams - killed in action on December 31, 1862.
*Colonel Richard H. Nodine - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/025-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls - retrieved June 26, 2007. ]
*Colonel William E. Woodruff [Daniel, Larry J., "Days of Glory: The Army of the Cumberland, 1861-1865", LSU Press, 2004 ISBN 0-8071-2931-3 - retrieved August 09, 2007]
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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