74th_Illinois_Volunteer_Infantry_Regiment

74th Illinois Infantry Regiment

74th Illinois Infantry Regiment

Military unit

The 74th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

74th Regiment Illinois was organized at Rockford, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 4, 1862.

The regiment was discharged from service on June 10, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 5 officers and 78 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 3 officers and 116 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 202 fatalities.[1]

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Notes

  1. [1]
    http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#74th 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. [2]
    http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/074-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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