Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses 507 LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED. tEnlisted for three months. Highlanders" Birge's Sharpshooters" First Board of Trade " Second Board of Trade" Railroad Regiment " Excelsiors " " Wilder's Mounted Infantry" "Wilder's Mounted Infantry" "Wilder's Mounted Infantry" " Brackett's Regiment" " German Guides " g2d Illinois. 98th Illinois. I23d Illinois. 9th Illinois Cavalry. I3th Illinois Cavalry. •Reenlisted and served through the war. 6$th Illinois. 66th Illinois. 72d Illinois. 88th Illinois. 8gth Illinois. I24th Illinois. Many of these regiments dropped their synonyms before the war closed, and were known only by their regular title; and, with some, the synonym was never used except on the printed placards of the recruiting officers. The gth, soth, 8oth, 87th, ii2th. and n8th Regiments also served part of the time as mounted infantry. Only one vacancy occurred in the list of Illinois regiments; the i2ist failed to complete its organization. One regiment, known as the "Mechanics-Fusileers" or 56th Illinois Infantry, organized in November, 1861, to serve three years, was disbanded within four months, and another regiment, subsequently organized, was desig nated as the 56th Regiment. This latter regiment lost n officers and 195 men by the burning of the steamer " General Lyon," off Cape Hatteras, March 31, 1865. _15452
