58th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 58th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 58th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= February 11, 1862 to April 15, 1866
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Capture of Fort Henry
Capture of Fort Donelson
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Corinth
Battle of Nashville
Pleasent Hill, Louisiana
The 58th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 58th Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on December 26, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on April 15, 1866.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 8 officers and 75 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 211 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 298 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#58th 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 F. Lynch—mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/058-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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