58th Illinois Infantry Regiment

58th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry "Lyon Color Guard"
58th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry "Lyon Color Guard"
	Illinois state flag
Active	February 11, 1862, to April 15, 1866
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry
Engagements	Capture of Fort Henry; Capture of Fort Donelson; Battle of Shiloh; Battle of Corinth; Battle of Nashville; Pleasant Hill, Louisiana

The 58th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 58th Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on December 26, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on April 15, 1866.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 8 officers and 75 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 211 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 298 fatalities.^[1]

Commanders

Colonel William Francis Lynch - mustered out with the regiment.^[2]

Notes

^ http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#58th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
^ http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/cw36-agr.html Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

References

The Civil War Archive

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[1] ttp://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#58th 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] ttp://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/cw36-agr.html Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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