137th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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137th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Illinois state flag
Active June 5, 1864 to September 4, 1864
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry

The 137th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days.

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[edit] Service

The 137th Illinois Infantry was organized at Quincy, Illinois, and mustered into Federal service on June 5, 1864, for a one-hundred-day enlistment. The 137th garrisoned Memphis, Tennessee.

The regiment was mustered out of service on September 4, 1864.

[edit] Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 1 officer and 17 enlisted men killed in action or mortally wounded, and 1 officer and 31 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 50 fatalities.[1]

[edit] Commanders

  • Colonel John Wood - mustered out with the regiment.[2]


[edit] See also

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#137th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
  2. ^ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/137-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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