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Forty-Second Illinois Infantry.
Harker's Brigade —
Newton's Division--Fourth 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 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 1 | | 1 | 18 |
| Company | A | | 15 | 15 | | 17 | 17 | 151 |
| | B | 2 | 16 | 18 | 1 | 19 | 20 | 156 |
| | C | 1 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 22 | 23 | 160 |
| | D | | 19 | 19 | 1 | 23 | 24 | 162 |
| | E | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 15 | 15 | 147 |
| | F | 2 | 17 | 19 | | 19 | 19 | 168 |
| | G | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 22 | 22 | 184 |
| | H | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 21 | 21 | 158 |
| | I | | 24 | 24 | | 25 | 25 | 154 |
| | K | | 15 | 15 | 1 | 18 | 19 | 164 |
| Totals | 13 | 168 | 181 | 5 | 201 | 206 | 1,622 |
181 killed == 11.1 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 654; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 33.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1862 | 4 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 10 |
| Columbia, Tenn., Sept. 9, 1862 | 1 | Peach Tree Creek, Ga. | 2 |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 35 | Siege of Atlanta | 6 |
| Chickamauga, Ga. | 47 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 1 |
| Missionary Ridge, Tenn. | 12 | Lovejoy's Station, Ga. | 1 |
| Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. | 1 | Spring Hill, Tenn. | 23 |
| Resaca, Ga. | 8 | Franklin, Tenn. | 13 |
| Adairsville, Ga. | 2 | Nashville, Tenn. | 5 |
| New Hope Church, Ga. | 4 | Place unknown | 4 |
| Pine Mountain, Ga. | 2 | | |
Present, also, at
Island No.10; New Madrid; Siege of
Corinth;
Hoover's Gap;
Dandridge.
notes.--Organized at
Chicago, July 22, 1861, and left the
State, September 21st, proceeding to
St. Louis.
It served in
Missouri until April, 1862, when it was ordered to
Corinth.
During the siege of that place it was engaged in the affair at
Farmington, losing 2 killed, 12 wounded, and 3 missing. After marching through
Mississippi,
Northern Alabama, and
Tennessee, its next battle occurred at
Stone's River.
It was then in
Roberts's Illinois Brigade,
Sheridan's (3d) Division,
McCook's Corps; loss, 19 killed, 96 wounded, and 46 missing;
Colonel Roberts, who was in command of the brigade, was among the killed.
At
Chickamauga,
Major James Leighton was killed, the loss of the Forty-second in that battle amounting to 28 killed, 128 wounded, and 28 prisoners.
1 In October, 1863, it was placed in
Harker's (3d) Brigade,
Sheridan's (2d) Division, Fourth Corps, in which command it fought at
Missionary Ridge; loss, 5 killed and 40 wounded The division was commanded by
General John Newton during the
Atlanta campaign, and by
General Wagner during the
Tennessee campaign against
Hood.
Major D. W. Norton was killed near New Hope Church, Ga., June 3, 1864.
The regiment lost at
Spring Hill and
Franklin, 24 killed, 95 wounded, and 30 missing; at
Nashville, 2 killed and 12 wounded. Having reenlisted, it served throughout the war, and at its close accompanied the Fourth Corps to
Texas where it was stationed in 1865, as an Army of Occupation.
