16th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

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16th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
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ActiveDecember 25, 1862, to August 31, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Cavalry
Engagements Battle of Resaca
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville

The 16th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 16th Illinois Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, between January and April 1863 from numerous independent companies of Illinois cavalry.

The regiment mustered out on August 19, 1865 .

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 3 officers and 30 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 228 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 262 fatalities. [1]

Commanders

Notable members

See also

Notes

  1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav2.htm#16th 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/cav016-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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