130th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 130th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= October 25, 1862 to August 15, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Champion's Hill
Battle of Big Black River Bridge
Siege of Vicksburg

The 130th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 130th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 25, 1862 for a three year enlistment.

The regiment was mustered out of service on August 15, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 18 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 153 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 177 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#130th 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 Nathaniel Niles -resigned on May 6, 1864.
*Lieutenant Colonel John B. Reid - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/130-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]