29th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

29th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Illinois state flag
Active August 19, 1861 to November 6, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, Siege of Corinth & Vicksburg

The 29th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that

served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 29th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 15, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on November 6, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 5 officers and 70 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 3 officers and 222 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 300 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf3.htm#29th 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/029-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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