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Eighth Illinois Infantry.
Stevenson's Brigade —
Logan's Division--Seventeenth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Company | A | 1 | 21 | 22 | | 12 | 12 | 184 |
| | B | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 16 | 16 | 190 |
| | C | | 16 | 16 | | 18 | 18 | 193 |
| | D | | 14 | 14 | | 13 | 13 | 199 |
| | E | | 15 | 15 | | 12 | 12 | 198 |
| | F | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 20 | 20 | 186 |
| | G | | 10 | 10 | | 14 | 14 | 187 |
| | H | | 16 | 16 | | 20 | 20 | 186 |
| | I | | 17 | 17 | | 10 | 10 | 193 |
| | K | 2 | 21 | 23 | | 19 | 19 | 197 |
| Totals | 6 | 160 | 166 | | 155 | 155 | 1,929 |
Of the original enrollment enlisted in 1861, there were 148 killed.
Total of killed and wounded, 551.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Charleston, Mo. | 1 | Siege of Vicksburg | 10 |
| Fort Donelson, Tenn. | 81 | Jackson, Miss. | 6 |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 32 | Spanish Fort, Ala. | 1 |
| Raymond, Miss. | 12 | Fort Blakely, Ala. | 15 |
| Champion's Hill, Miss. | 5 | Memphis, Tenn. | 1 |
| Milliken's Bend, La. | 1 | Steamer “Moderator” (1863） | 1 |
Present, also, at Siege of
Corinth;
Port Gibson;
Brownsville;
Meridian.
notes.--Mustered in April 25, 1861, for three months, after which it reorganized and mustered in for three years. Leaving
Cairo in October, it served in
Missouri until February, 1862, when it moved with
Grant up the
Tennessee River to
Fort Henry, and thence to
Fort Donelson, where it was actively engaged in the assault, being then in
Oglesby's (1st) Brigade,
McClernand's Division; loss, 54 killed and 188 wounded,--a total of 242, out of 613 officers and men engaged.
At
Shiloh, under command of
Captain Robert H. Sturgess, it lost 30 killed, 91 wounded, and 3 missing, out of 474 engaged.
After the Siege of
Corinth, May, 1862, the Eighth shared in
Grant's
Tennessee and
Mississippi campaigns, prior to the investment of
Vicksburg.
During the
Vicksburg campaign it was in
Stevenson's (3d) Brigade,
Logan's Division, Seventeenth Corps.
At the
battle of Raymond it lost 8 killed and 19 wounded; at Champion's Hill, 2 killed, 7 wounded, and 3 missing; and in the assault on
Vicksburg, May 22, 4 killed and 19 wounded. The regiment remained in
Mississippi during 1864, reenlisting in the meantime, and going home on its veteran furlough.
On January 1, 1865, it left
Memphis for New Orleans, proceeding thence, in March, to
Mobile, where it was prominently engaged in the siege of that place.
In the successful assault on
Fort Blakely, April 9, 1865, it lost 10 killed and 54 wounded; its colors were the first on the enemy's works, the color-sergeant falling dead in the charge.
In June, 1864, the recruits left in the field by the Seventeenth Illinois, upon its return home, were transferred to the Eighth.
The regiment remained on duty in
Louisiana and
Texas until the spring of 1866, and was finally mustered out at
Baton Rouge, May 4, 1866.
