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Eighty-Second Illinois Infantry
Tyndale's Brigade —
Williams's Division--Twentieth 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 | | | | | | | 18 |
| Company | A | | 10 | 10 | | 5 | 5 | 94 |
| | B | 1 | 12 | 13 | | 4 | 4 | 86 |
| | C | | 8 | 8 | | 3 | 3 | 94 |
| | D | | 15 | 15 | | 7 | 7 | 99 |
| | E | | 9 | 9 | | 5 | 5 | 94 |
| | F | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 4 | 4 | 96 |
| | G | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 4 | 4 | 87 |
| | H | | 8 | 8 | | 12 | 12 | 86 |
| | I | 1 | 8 | 9 | | 11 | 11 | 97 |
| | K | | 10 | 10 | | 5 | 5 | 105 |
| Totals | 4 | 98 | 102 | | 60 | 60 | 956 |
102 killed == 10.6 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 377; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 13
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Chancellorsville, Va. | 47 | Nose's Creek, Ga. | 1 |
| Gettysburg, Pa. | 12 | Peach Tree Creek, Ga. | 10 |
| Wauhatchie, Tenn. | 1 | Siege of Atlanta, Ga. | 4 |
| Lookout Mountain, Tenn. | 1 | Averasboro, N. C. | 3 |
| New Hope Church, Ga. | 14 | Bentonville, N. C. | 1 |
| Pine Mountain, Ga. | 5 | Sherman's March | 1 |
| Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 1 | Place unknown | 1 |
Present, also, at
Missionary Ridge, Tenn.;
Resaca, Ga.;
Cassville, Ga.;
Goldsboro, N. C.; Siege of
Savannah.
notes.--A German regiment, with the exception of one company which was composed of Scandinavians.
One company, the
Concordia Guards (C), was composed of Jews, the Jewish citizens of
Chicago subscribing $10,000 for the assistance of that company.
The Eighty-second was organized at Camp Butler, and left the
State, November 3, 1862, under orders to join the Army of the Potomac, the only
Illinois regiment of infantry in that Army
1 Soon after its arrival in
Virginia, it was assigned to
Schimmelfennig's (1st) Brigade,
Schurz's (3d) Division, Eleventh Corps, and went into winter quarters near Stafford Court House.
It was under fire, for the first time, at
Chancellorsville, where
Schurz's Division made a gallant attempt to retrieve the disaster that befell the corps.
The regiment lost, in that battle, 29 killed, 88 wounded, and 38 missing. At
Gettysburg, under command of
Colonel Salomon, it lost 4 killed, 19 wounded, and 89 missing or captured.
In September, 1863, the corps was transferred to
Tennessee, where it was engaged in the battles about
Chattanooga, after which it marched to the relief of
Knoxville.
The Eleventh Corps was transferred, in April, 1864, to the newly-organized Twentieth,
General Hooker commanding, the Eighty-Second being assigned to
Robinson's (3d) Brigade,
Williams's (1st) Division — the famous “Red star Division” of the Twelfth Corps, whose badge was still retained by the Twentieth.
At the
battle of New Hope Church, the regiment lost 11 killed, and 69 wounded, out of 245 engaged.
After the fall of
Atlanta, the Eighty-second accompanied its corps on the March through
Georgia, after which it fought under
Slocum in the Carolinas.
