113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

113th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
Active 1 October 1862 to 20 June 1865
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Engagements

American Civil War

Commanders
Notable
commanders
Colonel George Blaikie Hoge

The 113th Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 113th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Hancock near Chicago, Illinois and mustered in for three years service on 1 October 1862 under the command of Colonel George Blaikie Hoge.[1][2]

The regiment was attached to 1st Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, Right Wing, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, November 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, District of Memphis, XIII Corps, to December 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XV Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to November 1863. Post of Corinth, Mississippi, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to January 1864. 2nd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, XVI Corps, to June 1864. 2nd Brigade, Sturgis' Expedition, June 1864. 1st Brigade, Post of Memphis, District of West Tennessee, to February 1865. Unattached, Post of Memphis, District of West Tennessee, to June 1865.

The 113th Illinois Infantry mustered out of service on 20 June 1865.[3]

Detailed service

Date Battle or Event
6 November 1862Ordered to Memphis, Tenn.
26 November-12 December 1862 Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign. "Tallahatchie March"
20 December 1862 – 2 January 1863Sherman's Yazoo Expedition
26-28 December 1862 Chickasaw Bayou
29 December 1862 Chickasaw Bluff
3-10 January 1863 Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark
10-11 January 1863Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post (Companies C, D, F, I, and K detached to guard prisoners sent north after Arkansas Post, and retained in Illinois on guard duty until October 1864, when they rejoined the regiment at Memphis, Tenn.)
17-22 January 1863Moved to Young's Point, La. and duty there until March.
14-27 March 1863Expedition to Rolling Fork, Miss., via Muddy, Steele's and Black Bayous and Deer Creek
22 March 1863Near Deer Creek
19 April - 2 May 1863Demonstration on Haines' and Drumgould's Bluffs
2-14 May 1863Movement to Jackson, Miss., via Grand Gulf
14 May 1863Jackson
16 May 1863Champion Hill
18 May-4 July 1863Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.
19th + 22 May 1863Assaults on Vicksburg
4 July 1863Surrender of Vicksburg
4-10 July 1863Advance on Jackson, Miss.
10-17 July 1863 Siege of Jackson
17 July 1863-January 1864Ordered to Memphis, Tenn.; then to Corinth, Miss., and post duty there
January 1864-June 1865At Memphis, Tenn.
1-13 June 1865Sturgis' Expedition into Mississippi
10 June 1865Near Colliersville, Tenn.
10 June 1865Brice's (or Tishamingo) Creek, near Guntown, Miss.
11 June 1865Ripley
21 August 1865Repulse of Forrest's attack on Memphis
10 October 1865 Eastport

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 303 men during service; 1 officer and 25 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 4 officers and 273 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Notable members

See also

References

  1. "113th Illinois Infantry Regiment". Civilwar.illinoisgenweb.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
  2. "113th Infantry - Illinois in the Civil War". Illinoiscivilwar.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
  3. "113th Infantry - Illinois in the Civil War". Illinoiscivilwar.org. Retrieved 2014-08-24.
Attribution

External links

Palantine HIstorical Society's Civil War page

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