78th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 78th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= September 1, 1862 to June 7, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Chickamauga, Battle of Kennesaw Mountain,Battle of Jonesboro, March to the Sea, Battle of Bentonville

The 78th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

78th Regiment Illinois was organized at Quincy, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 1, 1862.

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

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 9 officers and 95 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 117enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 221 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf6.htm#78th 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 H. Bennison - resigned commission September 2, 1863.
*Colonel Maris R. Vernon - Mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/078-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]