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Eleventh Illinois Infantry.
Ransom's Brigade —
McArthur'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 | 18 |
Company | A | 1 | 20 | 21 | | 20 | 20 | 192 |
| B | 2 | 6 | 8 | | 24 | 24 | 172 |
| C | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 21 | 21 | 174 |
| D | | 18 | 18 | | 33 | 33 | 198 |
| E | | 21 | 21 | | 25 | 25 | 208 |
| F | | 17 | 17 | | 35 | 35 | 201 |
| G | 1 | 19 | 20 | | 33 | 33 | 201 |
| H | | 20 | 20 | | 24 | 24 | 188 |
| I | | 15 | 15 | 1 | 35 | 36 | 173 |
| K | 1 | 24 | 25 | | 33 | 33 | 217 |
Totals | 7 | 179 | 186 | 1 | 284 | 285 | 1,942 |
Original enrollment, 801; killed, 151; percentage, 18.8.
Total of killed and wounded, 543; missing or captured 126; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 23.
battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
Fort Donelson, Tenn. | 102 | Jackson, Miss., July 7, 1864 | 2 |
Shiloh, Tenn. | 24 | Clinton, Miss., July 7, 1864 | 5 |
Vicksburg Assault, May 22 | 11 | Fort Blakely, Ala. | 2 |
Siege of Vicksburg | 16 | Macon, Ga. (prisoner) | 1 |
Liverpool Heights, Miss. | 3 | Guerrillas | 1 |
Yazoo City, Miss. | 14 | Place unknown | 4 |
Black River Bridge, Miss. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Fort Henry, Tenn.; Siege of
Corinth;
Trenton, Tenn.;
Benton, Miss.;
Spanish Fort, Ala.
notes.--Mustered in originally as a three months regiment.
It was remustered at
Bird's Point, Mo., for three years, on July 13, 1861, one-third of the men remaining in the service.
The regiment performed garrison duty in
Missouri until February, 1862, when it embarked on the campaign against
Forts Henry and
Donelson.
In the storming of
Fort Donelson it lost 70 killed, 181 wounded, and 88 missing; a total of 339 out of about 500 engaged; many of the missing were killed or wounded.
The regiment was then in
W. H. Wallace's Brigade of
McClernand's Division.
At
Shiloh, it fought in
Marsh's (2d) Brigade of the same division, taking 239 officers and men into action, and losing 17 killed, 69 wounded, and 17 missing; total, 103.
During the
Vicksburg campaign it was in
Ransom's (2d) Brigade,
McArthur's Division, Seventeenth Corps.
In the assault on
Vicksburg, May 22, 1863, it lost 3 killed, 30 wounded, and 9 missing;
Colonel Nevins was among the killed.
At Liverpool Heights, February 5, 1864, it lost 4 killed and 9 wounded; at
Yazoo City, March 5th, 9 killed, 24 wounded, and 12 missing. In July, 1864, it marched with
General Slocum's Expedition against
Jackson, Miss.
On July 29, 1864, it moved to
Morganzia, La., and in March, 1865, it was engaged in the siege operations about
Mobile, and in the fighting at
Fort Blakely.
In April, 1863, the One Hundred and Ninth Illinois was discontinued, and the men, numbering 589 (on the rolls), were transferred to the ranks of the Eleventh.
The Eleventh was mustered out July 14, 1865, and the men with unexpired terms of enlistment were transferred to the Eighth and Forty-sixth Regiments, Illinois Infantry.