2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
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| 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry | |
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| Active | August 12, 1861 to December 30, 1865 |
| Country | United States |
| Allegiance | Union |
| Branch | Cavalry |
The 2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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[edit] Service
Companies "A" to "L of the 2nd Illinois Cavalry was mustered into service at Camp Butler, Illinois on August 12, 1861. Company "M"" was mustered in on December 30, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on December 30, 1865.
[edit] Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 8 officers and 50 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 3 officers and 173 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 234 fatalities.[1]
[edit] Commanders
- Colonel Silas Noble - mustered out February 16, 1863
- Colonel Daniel B. Bush, Jr. - Discharged July 24, {[1865]].
Colonel Daniel Brown Bush Jr. Was a Veteran of the Illinois Morman War and the Mexican-American War before being commissioned in Company S, 2nd Cavalry Regiment Illinois as a Major on 23 Sep 1861. Was promoted to Lt. Colonel on 16 Feb 1863 and to Full Colonel on 3 May 1864. He was at the Battle of Vicksburg commanding 5 companies of calvary.
- Colonel Bejamin F. Marsh[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav1.htm#2nd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
- ^ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/cav002-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil war website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls
