63rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- 63rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 63rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
caption=Illinois state flag
dates= April 10, 1862 to July 13, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Siege of Vicksburg, Battle of Bentonville
The 63rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
63rd Regiment Illinois was organized at Anna, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on April 10, 1862.
The regiment was discharged from service on July 13, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 2 officers and 66 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 137 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 206 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#63rd 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 Francis Moro - resigned commission September 29, 1862.
*Colonel Joseph B. McCowan - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/063-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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