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92nd Illinois Infantry Regiment

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92nd Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry/Illinois Volunteer Mounted Infantry
Illinois state flag
ActiveSeptember 4, 1862, to June 21, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchInfantry
EngagementsAmerican Civil War

The 92nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, also known as 92nd Illinois Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment, was an infantry and mounted infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 92nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Rockford, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 4, 1862.[1][2] The Regiment was assigned to the Army of Kentucky between November 1862 and October 1863, the Army of the Cumberland between October 1863 and October 1864,[3] and the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi between October 1864 and June 1865.[4]

The regiment was converted to mounted infantry on July 22, 1863, and assigned to Brigadier General John T. Wilder's Lightning Brigade, an element of "Wilder's Mounted Infantry."As part of that brigade, it performed admirably in the Tullahoma[5][4][6] and Chickamauga campaigns. Its superior firepower[7] due to its Spencers was found to allow it to take on an enemy that outnumbered them on several occasions and triumph. Also, the rapidity of movement afforded by their mounts gave them a rapid response ability that could take and maintain the initiative from the rebels[8] This combat power prevented much larger Confederate units from crossing a bridge on the first day of Chickamauga[9][10] and stopped the left column of the Bragg's key breakthrough on the second day.[11]

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 1 officer and 51 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 127 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 181 fatalities.[12]

Commanders

Notes

  1. ^ Official Records of the American Civil War of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. War Department
  2. ^ Baumgartner, p. 70
  3. ^ Wilder's Brigade Mounted Infantry Living History Society
  4. ^ a b Lightning at Hoover's Gap: the Story of Wilder's Brigade, Sunderland
  5. ^ The Fall of Chattanooga, Robertson
  6. ^ Kennedy, p. 225.
  7. ^ Wilder's Lightning Brigade and Its Spencer Repeaters, Sunderland
  8. ^ McLemore's Cove, Robertson
  9. ^ The Armies Collide, Robertson
  10. ^ Day 1, Robertson
  11. ^ Day 2, Robertson
  12. ^ Dyer
  13. ^ http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/092-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

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