99th Illinois Infantry Regiment

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99th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park across the ravine from the Railroad Redoubt (2019)

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Captain Isaac G. Hodgen of Co. A, 99th Illinois Infantry Regiment. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

The 99th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Template:SfnpTemplate:Sfnp

Service

The 99th Illinois Infantry was organized at Florence, IllinoisTemplate:Sfnp and mustered into Federal service on August 23, 1862.Template:Sfnmp

The regiment was mustered out on July 31, 1865, and discharged at Springfield, Illinois,Template:Sfnp on August 9, 1865.Template:Sfnmp

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 47 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds 1 officer and 120 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 172 fatalities.Template:Sfnmp

Commanders

• Colonel George W.K. Bailey - Mustered out December 16, 1864.Template:Sfnp

See also

• List of Illinois Civil War Units
• Illinois in the American Civil War
• Thomas J. Higgins, a soldier in the 99th Illinois who won the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Vicksburg.

References

Sources

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