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18th Illinois Infantry Reorganized
in the American Civil War
Online Books:
18th Illinois Infantry
(Reorganized) Soldier Roster - Report of the Adjutant
General of the State of Illinois, Volume 2, Revised by Brigadier General J.N.
Reece, Adjutant General, 1900
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| Regimental History |
| Eighteenth (Reorganized) Illinois Infantry. — Lieut.-Col., Jules
C. Webber; Maj., Noah R. Yeargin. All reenlisted men and recruits who
had joined the original 18th regiment after the date of its muster-in,
were, in compliance with special orders No. 112, of the commander of the
Department of Arkansas, dated May 24, 1864, formed into companies under
supervision of Maj. Vincent, commissary of musters, and on April 14,
1865, the regiment was composed of two companies of veterans (B and C) ;
one company of three years recruits (A), and seven companies of one year
recruits assigned to the regiment in March, 1865. On Dec. 16, 1865, the
regiment was mustered out at Little Rock, Ark., and on the 31st arrived
at Camp Butler, Ill., for payment and discharge. The aggregate of the
18th regiment from its first organization to its final muster-out, rank
and file, numbered 2,043. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 3
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