26th Illinois Infantry Regiment

26th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry
	Illinois state flag
Active	August 31, 1861, to July 20, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Infantry

The 26th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 26th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 31, 1861.

The regiment was mustered out on July 20, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 88 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 194 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 286 fatalities.[1]

Commanders

Colonel John Mason Loomis - resigned on April 30, 1864.
Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Gilmore - resigned on April 14, 1863.
Lieutenant Colonel Ira J. Bloomfield - mustered out with the regiment.[2]

Notes

http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf2.htm#26th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. - retrieved June 25, 2007.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/026-fs.htm Archived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls - retrieved June 26, 2007.

References

The Civil War Archive

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[1] ttp://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf2.htm#26th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. - retrieved June 25, 2007.

[2] ttp://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/026-fs.htm Archived 2007-08-19 at the Wayback Machine Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls - retrieved June 26, 2007.