42nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 42nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= July 22, 1861 to December 16, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Resaca
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville

The 42nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 42nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on July 22, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on December 16, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 13 officers and 168 enlistedmen who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 5 officers and 201 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 387 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#42nd 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 William A. Webb - died on December 24, 1861.
*Colonel George W. Roberts - killed in action on December 31, 1862.
*Colonel Nathan H. Walworth - resigned on April 13, 1864.
*Lieutenant Colonel Edgar D. Swain - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/042-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]