52nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

52nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 52nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= November 19, 1861 to July 5, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
March to the Sea
Battle of Bentonville

The 52nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 52nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Geneva, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on November 19, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on July 5, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 59 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 119 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 180 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf4.htm#52nd 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 Isaac G. Wilson - resigned on December 9, 1861.
*Colonel Thomas W. Sweeny - promoted brigadier general.
*Lieutenant Colonel Edwin A. Bowen - mustered out October 24, 1864.
*Lieutenant Colonel Jerome G. Davis - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/052-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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