26th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 26th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 26th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= August 31, 1861 to July 20, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
The 26th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 26th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 31, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on July 20, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 2 officers and 88 enlistedmen who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 194 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 286 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf2.htm#26th 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 John M. Loomis - resigned on April 30, 1864.
*Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Gilmore - resigned on April 14, 1863.
*Lieutenant Colonel Ira J. Bloomfield - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/026-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls - retrieved June 26, 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]
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment — Infobox Military Unit unit name= 11th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry caption=11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment at Camp Lincoln on the heights opposite the Washington Navy Yard [Randall (1960), p. 245.] dates= May 7, 1861 ndash; June … Wikipedia
List of Illinois Civil War Units — Infantry Units= *7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Months) *7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Years) *8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Months) *8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Years) *9th Illinois… … Wikipedia
11th New York Infantry — 11th Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry … Wikipedia
List of Missouri Union Civil War units — Contents 1 Long Enlistment Infantry Regiments 2 Short Enlistment Infantry Regiments 3 Early War Home Guard Organizations 4 Enrolled Missouri Militia … Wikipedia
Puerto Rican Campaign — Infobox Military Conflict caption= Land Campaign in Puerto Rico conflict=Puerto Rican Campaign partof=the Spanish American War date=May 12, 1898 ndash; August 13, 1898 place=Puerto Rico result= Militarily inconclusive, Spain cedes Puerto Rico in… … Wikipedia
New York Army National Guard — Shoulder Sleeve insignia Active 1906 present Country … Wikipedia
Joseph Pomeroy Widney — (December 26, 1841 mdash; July 4, 1938) was a polymathic pioneer American physician, medical topographer, scholar educator, clergyman, entrepreneur philanthropist, proto environmentalist, prohibitionist, philosopher of religion, controversial… … Wikipedia
National Guard of the United States — For the National Guard of a State and other countries National Guard, see National Guard (disambiguation). For the American Civil War regiment, see 11th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. National Guard of the United States … Wikipedia
Troop engagements of the American Civil War, 1861 — Troop engagements in 1861April; 12:; Bombardment of Fort Sumter, South Carolina::* No casualties.; 15:; Evacuation of Fort Sumter, South Carolina::* Losses: Union One soldier was killed and three others wounded by a premature explosion of a… … Wikipedia
Cavalry (United States) — Infobox Military Unit unit name= United States Army: Cavalry caption=Captain Charles A. May s squadron of the 2d Dragoons slashed through the enemy lines in an attack that climaxed the opening campaigns of the Mexican War. 2,500 American soldiers … Wikipedia
