Английская Википедия:55th Illinois Infantry Regiment

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The 55th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment is sometimes referred to as the Canton Rifles or the Douglas Brigade 2nd Regiment.

Service

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Monument to the 55th Illinois Infantry and Oscar Malmborg at Vicksburg.

The 55th Illinois Infantry was organized at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on October 31, 1861. Training continued at Benton Barracks, Missouri. The 55th was part of Sherman's Yazoo Expedition.

The regiment was mustered out on August 14, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered casualties including nine officers, 149 enlisted men who were killed in action, or mortally wounded, and two officers and 127 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 286 fatalities.Шаблон:Sfnp

Commanders

• Colonel David Stuart - promoted to brigadier general on November 29, 1862, U.S. Senate refused to confirm appointment, resigned April 3, 1863
• Colonel Oscar Malmborg

Notable members

• Coproral Robert M. Cox, Company K — Defended the colors planted on the outward parapet of Fort Hill.Шаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp
• Private Jerome Morford, Company KШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp — Participating in a diversionary "forlorn hope" attack on Confederate defenses, 22 May 1863.
• Private Jacob Sanford, Company KШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp — Participating in the same "forlorn hope."
• First Lieutenant John Warden, Company EШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp — Participating in the same "forlorn hope."
• Chaplain (Lieutenant Colonel) Milton L. Haney, Regimental ChaplainШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp — The "Fighting Chaplain" received the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Atlanta, 22 July 1864. Haney was one of only nine chaplains awarded the CMH in American history.

See also

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Map of Vicksburg National Military Park.

• Memphis and Charleston Railroad
• Milton L. Haney
• List of Illinois Civil War Units
• Illinois in the American Civil War

References

• The Civil War Archive
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External links

• The Story of the Fifty-fifth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War
• Benton Barracks, The Missouri Civil War Museum
• 55th Illinois Infantry at Vicksburg
• A Forlorn Hope
• Vicksburg Medal of Honor Recipients