113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

113th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Active	1 October 1862 to 20 June 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	American Civil War Battle of Chickasaw Bayou Battle of Arkansas Post Yazoo Pass Expedition Battle of Port Gibson Battle of Champion Hill Siege of Vicksburg (19 May & 22 May assaults) Battle of Brice's Crossroads
Commanders
Notable commanders	Colonel George Blaikie Hoge

The 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 113th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Hancock near Chicago, Illinois and mustered in for three years service on 1 October 1862 under the command of Colonel George Blaikie Hoge.^[1]^[2]

The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, Right Wing, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, November 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Memphis, XIII Corps, to December 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to November 1863. Post of Corinth, Mississippi, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to January 1864. 2nd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, XVI Corps, to June 1864. 2nd Brigade, Sturgis' Expedition, June 1864. 1st Brigade, Post of Memphis, District of West Tennessee, to February 1865. Unattached, Post of Memphis, District of West Tennessee, to June 1865.

The 113th Illinois Infantry mustered out of service on 20 June 1865.^[3]

Detailed service

Date	Battle or Event
6 November 1862	Ordered to Memphis, Tenn.
26 November-12 December 1862	Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. "Tallahatchie March"
20 December 1862 – 2 January 1863	Sherman's Yazoo Expedition
26-28 December 1862	Chickasaw Bayou
29 December 1862	Chickasaw Bluff
3-10 January 1863	Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark
10-11 January 1863	Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post (Companies C, D, F, I, and K detached to guard prisoners sent north after Arkansas Post, and retained in Illinois on guard duty until October 1864, when they rejoined the regiment at Memphis, Tenn.)
17-22 January 1863	Moved to Young's Point, La. and duty there until March.
14-27 March 1863	Expedition to Rolling Fork, Miss., via Muddy, Steele's and Black Bayous and Deer Creek
22 March 1863	Near Deer Creek
19 April - 2 May 1863	Demonstration on Haines' and Drumgould's Bluffs
2-14 May 1863	Movement to Jackson, Miss., via Grand Gulf
14 May 1863	Jackson
16 May 1863	Champion Hill
18 May-4 July 1863	Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.
19th + 22 May 1863	Assaults on Vicksburg
4 July 1863	Surrender of Vicksburg
4-10 July 1863	Advance on Jackson, Miss.
10-17 July 1863	Siege of Jackson
17 July 1863-January 1864	Ordered to Memphis, Tenn.; then to Corinth, Miss., and post duty there
January 1864-June 1865	At Memphis, Tenn.
1-13 June 1865	Sturgis' Expedition into Mississippi
10 June 1865	Near Colliersville, Tenn.
10 June 1865	Brice's (or Tishamingo) Creek, near Guntown, Miss.
11 June 1865	Ripley
21 August 1865	Repulse of Forrest's attack on Memphis
10 October 1865	Eastport

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 303 men during service; 1 officer and 25 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 273 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Colonel George Blaikie Hoge

Notable members

Private William W. Burritt, Company G - Medal of Honor recipient for action at Vicksburg, 27 April 1863
Sergeant John S. Darrough, Company F - Medal of Honor recipient for action at Eastport, Mississippi, 10 October 1864
Private Newton T. Gould, Company G - Medal of Honor recipient for action at Vicksburg, 22 May 1863
Sergeant James Henry, Company B - Medal of Honor recipient for action at Vicksburg, 22 May 1863
Corporal Elisha Johns, Company B - Medal of Honor recipient for action at Vicksburg, 22 May 1863
Private Jacob C. Miller, Company G - Medal of Honor recipient for action at Vicksburg, 22 May 1863

References

↑ "113th Illinois Infantry Regiment". Civilwar.illinoisgenweb.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
↑ "113th Infantry - Illinois in the Civil War". Illinoiscivilwar.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
↑ "113th Infantry - Illinois in the Civil War". Illinoiscivilwar.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Kellogg, John Jackson. War Experiences and the Story of the Vicksburg Campaign from "Milliken's Bend" to July 4, 1863; Being an Accurate and Graphic Account of Campaign Events Taken from the Diary of Capt. J.J. Kellogg, of Co. B 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Washington, IA: Evening Journal), 1913.
McCarty, Terry M. and Margaret A.,The Chatfield Story: Civil War Letters and Diaries of Private Edward L. Chatfield of the 113th Illinois Volunteers (North Charleston, SC: BookSurge and CreateSpace Publications), 2009, 2010. ISBN 1-4196-9722-6; ISBN 978-1-4196-9722-7
Woolworth, Solomon. Experiences in the Civil War (Newark, NJ: s.n.), 1903.

Attribution

This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.

External links

History and rosters of the 113th Illinois Infantry from the Illinois Adjutant General's Report

Palantine HIstorical Society's Civil War page

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