72nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 72nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= August 23, 1862 to August 7, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Champion's Hill
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville

The 72nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, known as "Chicago Board of Trade Regiment" was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

72nd Regiment Illinois was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 23, 1862.

The regiment was discharged from service on August 7, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 7 officers and 79 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 145 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 234 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#72nd 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 Frederick A. Staring - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/072-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]