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Forty-Eighth Illinois Infantry.
Oliver's Brigade —
Hazen's Division--Fifteenth 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 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | | 1 | 21 |
| Company | A | | 9 | 9 | | 26 | 26 | 165 |
| | B | 2 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 25 | 27 | 157 |
| | C | | 10 | 10 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 151 |
| | D | 1 | 7 | 8 | | 15 | 15 | 150 |
| | E | 2 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 28 | 29 | 151 |
| | F | | 10 | 10 | | 25 | 25 | 161 |
| | G | | 16 | 16 | 1 | 25 | 26 | 157 |
| | H | 1 | 18 | 19 | | 25 | 25 | 213 |
| | I | 1 | 15 | 16 | | 29 | 29 | 193 |
| | K | | 8 | 8 | | 28 | 28 | 161 |
| Totals | 10 | 113 | 123 | 6 | 251 | 257 | 1,680 |
Total of killed and wounded 431.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Fort Donelson, Tenn. | 12 | Battle of Atlanta | 18 |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 32 | Ezra Chapel, Ga. | 14 |
| Germantown, Tenn. | 2 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 5 |
| Siege of Vicksburg | 1 | Lovejoy's Station, Ga. | 1 |
| Jackson, Miss. | 4 | Siege of Atlanta | 9 |
| Resaca, Ga. | 1 | Fort McAllister, Ga. | 8 |
| Dallas-New Hope Church, Ga. | 10 | Duck Creek, S. C. | 1 |
| Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 3 | Columbia, S. C. | 1 |
| Decatur, Ga. | 1 | | |
Present, also, at
Fort Henry, Tenn.; Siege of
Corinth, Miss.;
Missionary Ridge, Tenn.;
Bentonville, N. C.
notes.--Organized at
Springfield, Ill., in September, 1861.
It was stationed at
Cairo until February, 1862, when it embarked on the expedition against
Forts Henry and
Donelson, having been assigned to
W. H. Wallace's Brigade of
McClernand's Division.
In the action at
Fort Donelson, it lost 8 killed, 31 wounded, and 3 missing;
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas H. Smith was among the killed.
At
Shiloh, it lost 18 killed, 112 wounded, and 3 missing. The regiment was engaged in the Siege of
Corinth, after which, in June, 1862, it was ordered to
Bethel, Tenn., on garrison duty, where it remained until 1863.
While on the
Vicksburg campaign, it served in
W. S. Smith's Division, Sixteenth Corps.
It was engaged in the Siege of
Jackson; also, in the action on July 16th, in which
Major Wm. J. Stephenson was mortally wounded.
Having been transferred to the Fifteenth Corps, it marched to the relief of
Chattanooga, where it took part in the
battle of Missionary Ridge.
It then marched on the winter campaign in
East Tennessee for the relief of
Knoxville, a campaign memorable for its hardships, privation, and suffering.
The Forty-eighth fought in the Fifteenth Corps during the
Atlanta campaign, being hotly engaged in the battle of July 22, 1864, in which
Colonel Greathouse was killed.
The regiment reenlisted, and hence it continued with the corps on its March through
Georgia, and in the fighting in the Carolinas.
It was then in
Oliver's (3d) Brigade,
Hazen's (2d) Division, Fifteenth Corps.
After participating in the
Grand Review in
Washington at the close of the war, the regiment was ordered to
Little Rock, Ark., where it was mustered out August 15, 1865.
