152nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 152nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 152nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on February 28, 1865 for a one year enlistment. The 152nd garrisoned the line of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and later Memphis, Tennessee.

The regiment mustered out September 9, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 76 enlisted men who died of disease for a total of 76 fatalities.^[1]

Commanders

• Colonel Ferdinand D. Stephenson - mustered out with the regiment.^[2]

See also

• List of Illinois Civil War Units
• Illinois in the American Civil War

Notes

1. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#152nd 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/152-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

References

• The Civil War Archive