Английская Википедия:98th Illinois Infantry Regiment

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Шаблон:Infobox military unit The 98th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, later the 98th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Mounted Infantry, was an infantry and mounted infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.Шаблон:Sfnp

Service

The 98th Illinois Infantry was organized at Centralia, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 3, 1862.Шаблон:Sfnmp

The regiment was converted to mounted infantry on March 8, 1863Шаблон:Sfnp and became an element of "Wilder's Lightning Brigade", a unit that pioneered the use of mounted infantry.Шаблон:Sfnp As part of that brigade, it performed admirably in the TullahomaШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnmp and Chickamauga campaigns. Its superior firepowerШаблон:Sfnp due to its Spencers was found to allow it to take on an enemy that outnumbered them on several occasions and triumph. Also, the rapidity of movement afforded by their mounts gave them a rapid response ability that could take and maintain the initiative from the rebelsШаблон:SfnpThis combat power prevented much larger Confederate units from crossing a bridge on the first day of ChickamaugaШаблон:SfnpШаблон:SfnpШаблон:Sfnp and stopped the left column of the Bragg's key breakthrough on the second day.Шаблон:Sfnp

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1862 Spencer Rifle with sling and bayonet

The regiment was mustered out on June 27, 1865, and discharged at Springfield, Illinois, on July 7, 1865.Шаблон:Sfnmp

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 30 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 5 officers and 136 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 171 fatalities.Шаблон:Sfnmp

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See also

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