49th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 49th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 49th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= December 31, 1861 to September 9, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Capture of Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Pleasant Hill
Battle of Nashville
The 49th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 49th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on 31 December 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on September 9, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 7 officers and 72 enlistedmen who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 5 officers and 170 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 254 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#49th 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 R. Morrison - resigned on December 13, 1862.
*Colonel William A. Thrush - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/049-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]
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