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Ninety-Third Illinois Infantry.
Boomer's Brigade —
Quinby'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 | | | | 13 |
| Company | A | | 14 | 14 | | 16 | 16 | 95 |
| | B | | 20 | 20 | | 16 | 16 | 105 |
| | C | | 13 | 13 | | 19 | 19 | 96 |
| | D | | 14 | 14 | | 14 | 14 | 105 |
| | E | | 17 | 17 | | 10 | 10 | 94 |
| | F | 1 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 103 |
| | G | | 17 | 17 | | 16 | 16 | 100 |
| | H | | 12 | 12 | | 17 | 17 | 100 |
| | I | 1 | 9 | 10 | | 12 | 12 | 101 |
| | K | 1 | 16 | 17 | | 14 | 14 | 99 |
| Totals | 4 | 147 | 151 | 1 | 142 | 143 | 1,011 |
151 killed==14.9 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 416; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 25.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Jackson, Miss. | 3 | Allatoona Pass, Ga. | 34 |
| Champion's Hill, Miss. | 70 | Ogeechee Canal, Ga. | 1 |
| Vicksburg, Miss., May 22, 1863 | 10 | The Carolinas | 2 |
| Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. | 3 | Guerillas, March 25, 1865 | 1 |
| Missionary Ridge, Tenn. | 27 | | |
Present, also, at Siege of
Jackson, Miss.;
Dalton, Ga.; Siege of
Savannah, Ga.;
Congaree River, S. C.;
Bentonville, N. C.
notes.--Organized at
Chicago in September, 1862.
It was ordered to
Memphis, November 9th, in which vicinity it remained until the opening of the
Vicksburg campaign, in April, 1863.
In the meantime it was engaged or
Grant's March through
Northern Mississippi, and on the
Yazoo Expedition.
During the
Vicksburg campaign, the regiment served in
Boomer's (3d) Brigade,
Quinby's Division, Seventeenth Corps.
Its first encounter with the enemy occurred at the
battle of Jackson, May 14th, in which it lost 1 killed and 6 wounded. Two days later it fought at Champion's Hill, a hard fought field, where its casualties amounted to 38 killed, 113 wounded, and 11 missing; total, 162.
In the assault on
Vicksburg, May 22d, it lost 4 killed and 51 wounded;
Colonel Boomer, the brigade commander, lost his life in this action.
After the surrender of
Vicksburg, and the evacuation of
Jackson, the division moved to
Memphis, where it was transferred to the Fifteenth Corps; thence, to
Chattanooga, where it was engaged in the storming of
Missionary Ridge.
Colonel Putnam fell in this battle, the loss of the regiment being 20 killed, 42 wounded, and 27 missing.
During the
Atlanta campaign, the division (
General John E. Smith's) guarded the line or communication, the regiment being stationed at Allatoona Pass, where it was engaged in the memorable defense of that place, under
General Corse; loss, 2 killed, 52 wounded, and 10 missing. The regiment was commanded in this action by
Major James M. Fisher, and numbered 290 men. It was during this fighting that
General Sherman signalled the historic message to “Hold the
Fort.”
The Ninety-third afterwards accompanied the Fifteenth Corps on the March to the
Sea, and through the Carolinas.
The brigade was commanded at
Missionary Ridge by
General Matthies; at
Allatoona, by
Colonel Tourtelotte (4th Minnesota); and on the March to the
Sea by
Colonel McCown--then the First Brigade, Third Division (
Gen. J. E. Smith's), Fifteenth Corps.
