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93rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Illinois flag
ActiveOctober 13, 1862, to July 7, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
Engagements
Military unit
Illinois U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865
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92nd Illinois Infantry Regiment 94th Illinois Infantry Regiment

The 93rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 93rd Illinois Infantry was mustered into state service at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 13, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 23, 1865, and discharged at Chicago, Illinois, on July 7, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 147 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 147 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 294 fatalities.

Bronze relief portrait of Col. Putnam at Vicksburg National Military Park

Commanders

  • Colonel Holden Putnam - killed November 25, 1863.

See also

Notes

  1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf8.htm#93rd 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/093-fs.htm Illinois in the Cvil war website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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