130th Illinois Infantry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	130th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Dates:	October 25, 1862, to August 15, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Infantry
Battles:	Battle of Champion Hill Battle of Big Black River Bridge Siege of Vicksburg Battle of Mansfield

The 130th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 130th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, and mustered into Federal service on October 25, 1862, for a three-year enlistment.

The regiment was mustered out of service on August 15, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 18 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 153 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 177 fatalities.^[1]

Members

• Colonel Nathaniel Niles - resigned on May 6, 1864
• Major Jacob W. Wilkin, future Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois
• Lieutenant Colonel John B. Reid - mustered out with the regiment^[2]

See also

• List of Illinois Civil War Units
• Illinois in the American Civil War

Notes

1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#130th 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/130-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

References

• The Civil War Archive