Country United States Branch Infantry | Allegiance Union | |
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Active September 1, 1862 to June 7, 1865 Campaigns Tullahoma Campaign
Chickamauga Campaign
Chattanooga Campaign
Atlanta Campaign
Sherman's March to the Sea
Carolinas Campaign | ||
The 78th Illinois Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Contents
- History
- Middle Tennessee Operations
- Tullahoma Campaign
- Chickamauga Campaign
- Chattanooga Campaign
- Atlanta Campaign
- Shermans March to the Sea
- Carolinas Campaign
- Strength and Casualties
- Headquarters
- Company A
- Company B
- Company C
- Company D
- Company E
- Company F
- Company G
- Company H
- Company I
- Company K
- Other Wikipedia Articles and Categories
- References
History
The 78th Illinois Infantry Regiment Regiment was organized at Quincy, Illinois in Adams County, mustering in on September 1, 1862. The 78th Illinois then left the state by way of the steamboat along the Mississippi River for Louisville, Kentucky, arriving on September 19, 1862. The 78th Illinois Infantry Regiment Regiment was organized at Quincy, Illinois in Adams County. The 78th Illinois Infantry Regiment, would see all of its wartime duty in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
The 78th Illinois was originally attached to 39th Brigade, 12th Division, Army of the Ohio. The regiment went through a series of reassignments; first in November 1862 to Gilbert's Command, District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio. While in Franklin, Tennessee, in February 1863 the regiment was assigned to the Army of Kentucky, Department of the Cumberland. In June 1863, another reassignment assigned the 78th Illinois to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division Reserve Corps, Army of the Cumberland. The final reorganization would come in October 1863, assigning the regiment to the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XIV Corps.
The regiment received the blue United States uniform, typical of the civil war. Initially, the regiment was armed with .69 caliber rifled muskets, altered to use a percussion cap. In 1863, the regiment saw more modern arms provisioned to the soldiers; a mixture of the Enfield rifle and Springfield Rifle Muskets were carried. In 1864, all troops were armed with the Springfield Rifle Muskets.
Middle Tennessee Operations
February–April 1863Tullahoma Campaign
June 24 and July 3, 1863Chickamauga Campaign
August 16 to September 22, 1863Chattanooga Campaign
September through November 1863September 24 — November 23, 1863 November 23 — 24, 1863 November 24 — 25, 1863 November. 26, 1863 November 29 — December 17, 1863 February 22 — 27, 1864 February 23 — 25, 1864 April 11 — 13, 1864Atlanta Campaign
May 1 to September 8, 1864Operations In North Georgia and North Alabama against Forest and Hood (September 29 — November 3, 1864)
Sherman's March to the Sea
November 15 to December 21, 1864Carolinas Campaign
January through April 1865Strength and Casualties
When the regiment mustered in on September 1, 1862 it included 862 enlisted men. The regiment suffered 9 officers and 95 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 117 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 221 fatalities.
Headquarters
The 78th Illinois Infantry Regiment Regiment was organized at Quincy, Illinois in Adams County.
Commanding Officers
Company A
Recruited in Schuyler County, Illinois.
Company B
Recruited in Adams County, Illinois.
Companies B and C were captured by, then Colonel, John Hunt Morgan during a December 26, 1862 raid at Muldraugh Hill. They were sent to St. Louis, Missouri, under terms of parole and not exchanged until October 1863, effectively reducing the regiment by two companies of infantry.
Company C
Recruited in McDonough County, Illinois.
Company D
Recruited in Hancock County, Illinois.
Company E
Recruited in Adams County.
Company F
Recruited in Adams County.
Company G
Recruited in Adams County.
Company H
Recruited in Hancock County.
During the same raid that captured Companies B and C, Colonel Morgan attacked the Regimenal Headquarters and Company H, on the morning of December 30, 1862, in New Haven, Kentucky. The company sustained no casualties, but it was assumed that Colonel Morgan's cavalry did, but was never substantiated.
Company I
Recruited in McDonough County.
Company K
Recruited in Adams County.