86th Illinois Infantry Regiment

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86th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
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ActiveAugust 27, 1862, to June 21, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements Battle of Perryville
Battle of Stone's River
Battle of Chickamauga
Siege of Chattanooga
Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Resaca
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Jonesboro
Battle of Bentonville

The 86th 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 86th Illinois Infantry was organized at Peoria, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 27, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 6, 1865, and discharged at Chicago, Illinois, on June 21, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 3 officers and 73 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officers and 93 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 175 fatalities. [1]

Commanders

See also

Notes

  1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf7.htm#86th 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/086-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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