50th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 50th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 50th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= September 12, 1861 to July 13, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Capture of Fort Henry
Capture of Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Allatoona
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville
The 50th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, nicknamed the "Blind Half-Hundred," was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 50th Illinois Infantry was organized at Quincy, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 12, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on July 13, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 2 officers and 60 enlistedmen who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 121 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 191 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#50th 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 Moses M. Bane - resigned on December 13, 1862.
*Lieutenant Colonel William Hanna - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/050-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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