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Eighty-Fourth Illinois Infantry.
Grose's Brigade —
Stanley's Division--Fourth Corps.
Colonel Louis H. Waters;
Bvt. Brig.-Gen.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | | | | | | | 15 |
| Company | A | | 10 | 10 | | 13 | 13 | 90 |
| | B | | 17 | 17 | | 11 | 11 | 100 |
| | C | | 8 | 8 | | 16 | 16 | 97 |
| | D | 2 | 10 | 12 | | 22 | 22 | 95 |
| | E | | 9 | 9 | | 16 | 16 | 100 |
| | F | | 10 | 10 | | 11 | 11 | 93 |
| | G | | 17 | 17 | | 13 | 13 | 92 |
| | H | 2 | 13 | 15 | | 15 | 15 | 107 |
| | I | | 15 | 15 | 1 | 15 | 16 | 99 |
| | K | | 11 | 11 | | 12 | 12 | 99 |
| Totals | 4 | 120 | 124 | 1 | 144 | 145 | 987 |
124 killed == 12.5 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 446.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 67 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 8 |
| Chickamauga, Ga. | 28 | Before Atlanta, Ga. | 2 |
| Chattanooga, Tenn. | 1 | Jonesboro, Ga. | 3 |
| Dalton, Ga. | 1 | Lovejoy's Station, Ga. | 1 |
| Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. | 2 | Skirmish, Oct. 1864 | 1 |
| Dallas, Ga. | 5 | Nashville, Tenn. | 1 |
| New Hope Church, Ga. | 1 | Andersonville ( “Dead line.” ) | 1 |
| Pine Mountain, Ga. | 1 | Place unknown | 1 |
Present, also, at Chaplin Hills;
Lookout Mountain;
Missionary Ridge;
Buzzard Roost;
Resaca;
Smyrna;
Franklin.
notes.--Mustered in at
Quincy, Ill., on the 1st of September, 1862, and was ordered into
Kentucky on the 23d, where it was assigned to
Grose's (10th) Brigade,
W. S. Smith's (4th) Division, Army of the Cumberland.
At
Stone's River it fought in
Grose's (3d) Brigade.
Palmer's (2nd) Division,
Crittenden's Corps (Left Wing),--its casualties amounting to 35 killed, 124 wounded, and 8 missing; total 167 out of 357 engaged, as officially reported by
Colonel Waters.
Although this was its first experience under fire, the regiment received gratifying mention in the official reports, and was commended for steadiness and veteran-like movements while under a terrible fire.
At
Chickamauga it lost 13 killed, 83 wounded, and 9 missing. While on the
Atlanta campaign it served in
Grose's (3d) Brigade,
Stanley's (1st) Division, Fourth Corps.
After the capture of
Atlanta the corps moved north through
Tennessee, where it confronted the army of the
Confederate General Hood.
The Eighty-fourth was present at the. battles of
Franklin and
Nashville, but its loss in these engagements was slight.
While on the latter campaign, the division (First Division, Fourth Corps) was commanded by
General Kimball.
The regiment lost but few men taken prisoners; its missing ones were, nearly all, men who were killed.
It was under fire for the last time at the
battle of Nashville, December 16, 1864.
After
Hood's retreat the Fourth Corps was ordered to
Huntsville, Ala., and thence, after a short stay, to
East Tennessee.
The regiment was mustered out June 8, 1865, and the men whose terms would not expire until after October 1, 1865, were transferred to the Twenty-first Illinois Infantry.
