61st Illinois Infantry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	61st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Dates:	February 5, 1862, to September 27, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Infantry
Battles:	Battle of Shiloh Siege of Corinth Siege of Vicksburg Action at Overall's Creek Third Battle of Murfreesboro

The 61st Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 61st Illinois Infantry was originally organized at Carrollton, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on February 5, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee, on September 27, 1865.^[1]

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 3 officers and 34 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 4 officers and 183 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 224 fatalities.^[2]

Commanders

• Colonel Jacob Fry, March 26, 1862- May 14, 1863 (Resigned)^{[3] [4]}
• Colonel Simon P. Ohr, May 14, 1863- September 14, 1864 (died).^[5]
• Colonel Daniel Grass, September 15, 1864- May 15, 1865 (Discharged).^[6]
• Colonel Jerome B. Nulton, July 18, 1865- September 8, 1865 (Mustered Out).^[7]

See also

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

Notes

1. Brigadier General J. N. Reece, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois Springfield, IL: Phillips Bros., State Priinters, 1901. pp. 241- 243.
2. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#61st The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1960.
3. Brigadier General J. N. Reece, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois Springfield, IL: Phillips Bros., State Priinters, 1901. p. 209.
4. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/061-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls
5. Brigadier General J. N. Reece, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois Springfield, IL: Phillips Bros., State Priinters, 1901. p. 209.
6. Brigadier General J. N. Reece, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois Springfield, IL: Phillips Bros., State Priinters, 1901. p. 209.
7. Brigadier General J. N. Reece, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois Springfield, IL: Phillips Bros., State Priinters, 1901. p. 209.

References

• The Civil War Archive
• Free eBook: The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, Leander Stillwell, 5th Corporal Co. D 61st illinois