previous next

28th Illinois Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in August 15, 1861.

Moved to St. Louis, Mo., August 28, thence to Thebes and to Bird's Point, Mo., September 9.

Attached to District of Cairo to October, 1861.

4th Brigade, District of Cairo, to February, 1862.

1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of Cairo, February, 1862.

1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of West Tennessee, and Army of the Tennessee to July, 1862.

1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of Memphis, Tenn., to September, 1862.

1st Brigade, 4th Division, District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Department of the Tennessee, to December, 1862.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 13th Army Corps, to August, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, August, 1863.

Post of Natchez, Miss., to October, 1864.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Department of the Gulf, to December, 1864.

1st Brigade, Reserve Corps, Military Division Dept. West Mississippi, to February, 1865.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Reserve Corps, Military Division Dept. West Mississippi, February, 1865.

1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 13th Army Corps (New), Military Division Dept. West Mississippi, to July, 1865.

Department of Texas to March, 1866.


Service.

At Bird's Point, Mo., till October 2, 1861.

Moved to Fort Holt, Ky., October 2, and duty there till January 31, 1862.

Moved to Paducah, Ky., January 31.

Operations against Forts Henry and Heiman February 2-6.

Occupation of Fort Heiman February 6 to March 6.

Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., March 6-22.

Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., April 6-7.

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.

March to Memphis, Tenn., via Grand Junction, LaGrange, Holly Springs, Moscow and Germantown, June 1-July 21, and duty there till September 6.

Moved to Bolivar September 6-14.

Duty there till October 4.

Battle of the Hatchie, Metamora, October 5.

Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 2, 1862, to January 10, 1863.

Guard R. R. at Colliersville, Tenn., till May, 1863.

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., May 11-14.

Duty at Grand Gulf till June 11.

Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., June 11-July 4.

Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 5-10.

Siege of Jackson July 10-17.

Assault on Jackson July 12.

Duty at Vicksburg till August 15.

Moved to Natchez, Miss., August 15, and duty there till October, 1864.

Expedition to Harrisonburg, La., September 1-7, 1863.

Near Harrisonburg and capture of Fort Beauregard September 4.

Operations about Natchez December 1-10.

Regiment veteranize January 4, 1864.

Veterans absent on furlough May 18-July 8.

Expedition to Gillespie's Plantation, Black Bayou, August 4-6.

Expedition to Buck's Ferry and skirmishes September 9-22.

Expedition to Sicily Island September 26-30.

Expedition to Homachita River October 4-8.

Moved to Morganza, La., October 10-12, thence to the mouth of White River November 3-7.

Moved to Memphis, Tenn., November 20-22.

Duty there till January, 1865.

Expedition to Moscow December 21-31, 1864.

Moved to Kennersville, La., January 3-6, 1865; thence to New Orleans February 12-15.

Campaign against Mobile, Ala., and its defenses February 17-April 12.

Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8.

Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9.

Occupation of Mobile, April 12.

Whistler's Station April 13.

Duty at Mobile till July.

Moved to Brazos Santiago, Texas, July 2-3.

To Clarksville July 7, to Brownsville August 2-3, and duty there till March, 1866.

Mustered out March 15 and discharged at Camp Butler, Ill., May 13, 1866.

Regiment lost during service 9 Officers and 97 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 182 Enlisted men by disease. Total 290.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Grant (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
March, 1866 AD (2)
February, 1865 AD (2)
October, 1864 AD (2)
August, 1863 AD (2)
February, 1862 AD (2)
October 4th (2)
September 9th (2)
September 6th (2)
August 15th (2)
July 10th (2)
June 11th (2)
April 12th (2)
March 6th (2)
February 6th (2)
May 13th, 1866 AD (1)
July, 1865 AD (1)
January 6th, 1865 AD (1)
January 3rd, 1865 AD (1)
January, 1865 AD (1)
December 31st, 1864 AD (1)
December 21st, 1864 AD (1)
December, 1864 AD (1)
January 4th, 1864 AD (1)
September 7th, 1863 AD (1)
September 1st, 1863 AD (1)
July, 1863 AD (1)
May, 1863 AD (1)
January 10th, 1863 AD (1)
January, 1863 AD (1)
December, 1862 AD (1)
November 2nd, 1862 AD (1)
November, 1862 AD (1)
September, 1862 AD (1)
July, 1862 AD (1)
January 31st, 1862 AD (1)
October 2nd, 1861 AD (1)
October, 1861 AD (1)
August 15th, 1861 AD (1)
December 10th (1)
December 1st (1)
November 22nd (1)
November 20th (1)
November 7th (1)
November 3rd (1)
October 12th (1)
October 10th (1)
October 8th (1)
October 5th (1)
October 2nd (1)
September 30th (1)
September 26th (1)
September 22nd (1)
September 14th (1)
September 4th (1)
August 28th (1)
August 6th (1)
August 4th (1)
August 3rd (1)
August 2nd (1)
July 21st (1)
July 17th (1)
July 12th (1)
July 8th (1)
July 7th (1)
July 5th (1)
July 4th (1)
July 3rd (1)
July 2nd (1)
July (1)
June 1st (1)
May 30th (1)
May 18th (1)
May 14th (1)
May 11th (1)
April 29th (1)
April 13th (1)
April 9th (1)
April 8th (1)
April 7th (1)
April 6th (1)
March 26th (1)
March 22nd (1)
March 15th (1)
February 17th (1)
February 15th (1)
February 12th (1)
February 2nd (1)
January 31st (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: