51st Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 51st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= December 24, 1861 to September 25, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Stone's River
Battle of Chickamauga
[{Battle of Resaca]
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville

The 51st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 51st Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on December 24, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on September 25, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 9 officers and 106 enlistedmen who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 134 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 250 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#51st 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 Gilbert W. Cumming - resigned on September 30, 1862.
*Colonel Luther P. Bradley - promoted brigadier general on July 30, 1864.
*Lieutenant Colonel Charles W. Davis - discharged June 30, 1865.
*Lieutenant Colonel James S. Boyd - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/051-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
* [http://www.51illinois.org/index.html 51st Illinois Infantry: Letters, Diaries, History]

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]