46th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 46th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= December 28, 1861 to January 20, 1866
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Capture of Fort Henry
Capture of Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Siege of Vicksburg

The 46th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 46th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on December 28, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on January 20, 1866.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 7 officers and 74 enlistedmen who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 253 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 335 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#46th 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 John A. Davis - died of wounds on October 10, 1862.
*Colonel Benjamin Dornblaser - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/046-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]