Earlier this week, I returned from a much needed break, a road trip
across parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Of course,
along the way some Civil War sites were visited and upcoming posts will feature some of
these sites. For now, though, this is the next installment
featuring the Union regiments from William Fox’s list of 300 Fighting Regiments
that served in the trans-Mississippi. The 11th Illinois Infantry
started as a three months unit that initially saw duty in Missouri but then
went on to serve primarily east of the Mississippi River. For additional
information about the regiment see the following:
Gebhardt, Carl Dean. The 11th
Illinois Infantry Regiment in the Civil War (Thesis, M. A.), Western
Illinois University, 1968.
“Ransom’s Brigade —McArthur's Division--Seventeenth Corps.
（1) Col. Wm. H. L.;
Brig.-Gen. (Killed).
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（2) Col. Thomas E.
Ransom; Bvt. Major-Gen. (Died).
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(3) Col. Garrett Nevins
(Killed)
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(4) Col. James H. Coats;
Bvt. Brig-Gen.
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Companies.
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killed and died of wounds.
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died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c.
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Total Enrollment.
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Officers.
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Men.
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Total.
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Officers.
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Men.
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Total.
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Field and Staff
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1
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1
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1
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1
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18
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Company
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A
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1
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20
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21
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20
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20
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192
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B
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2
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6
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8
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24
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24
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172
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C
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1
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19
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20
|
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21
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21
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174
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D
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18
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18
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33
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33
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198
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E
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21
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21
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25
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25
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208
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F
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17
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17
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35
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35
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201
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G
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1
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19
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20
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33
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33
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201
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H
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20
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20
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24
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24
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188
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I
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15
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15
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1
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35
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36
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173
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K
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1
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24
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25
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33
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33
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217
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Totals
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7
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179
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186
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1
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284
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285
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1,942
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Original enrollment, 801; killed, 151; percentage, 18.8.
Total of killed and wounded, 543; missing or captured 126; died in
Confederate prisons (previously included), 23.
Battles.
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K. & M. W.
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Fort Donelson, Tenn.
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102
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Shiloh, Tenn.
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24
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Vicksburg Assault, May 22
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11
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Siege of Vicksburg
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16
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Liverpool Heights, Miss.
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3
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Yazoo City, Miss.
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14
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Black River Bridge, Miss.
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1
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Jackson, Miss., July 7, 1864
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2
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Clinton, Miss., July 7, 1864
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5
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Fort Blakely, Ala.
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2
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Macon, Ga. (prisoner)
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1
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Guerrillas
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1
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Place unknown
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4
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Present, also, at Fort Henry, Tenn.; Siege of Corinth; Trenton, Tenn.;
Benton, Miss.; Spanish Fort, Ala.
Notes.--Mustered in originally as a three months regiment. It was
remustered at Bird’s Point, Mo., for three years, on July 13, 1861, one-third
of the men remaining in the service. The regiment performed garrison duty in
Missouri until February, 1862, when it embarked on the campaign against Forts
Henry and Donelson. In the storming of Fort Donelson it lost 70 killed, 181
wounded, and 88 missing; a total of 339 out of about 500 engaged; many of the
missing were killed or wounded. The regiment was then in W. H. Wallace's
Brigade of McClernand's Division. At Shiloh, it fought in Marsh’s (2d) Brigade
of the same division, taking 239 officers and men into action, and losing 17
killed, 69 wounded, and 17 missing; total, 103. During the Vicksburg campaign
it was in Ransom's (2d) Brigade, McArthur's Division, Seventeenth Corps. In the
assault on Vicksburg, May 22, 1863, it lost 3 killed, 30 wounded, and 9
missing; Colonel Nevins was among the killed. At Liverpool Heights, February 5,
1864, it lost 4 killed and 9 wounded; at Yazoo City, March 5th, 9 killed, 24
wounded, and 12 missing. In July, 1864, it marched with General Slocum's
Expedition against Jackson, Miss. On July 29, 1864, it moved to Morganzia, La.,
and in March, 1865, it was engaged in the siege operations about Mobile, and in
the fighting at Fort Blakely. In April, 1863, the One Hundred and Ninth
Illinois was discontinued, and the men, numbering 589 (on the rolls), were
transferred to the ranks of the Eleventh. The Eleventh was mustered out July
14, 1865, and the men with unexpired terms of enlistment were transferred to
the Eighth and Forty-sixth Regiments, Illinois Infantry” (Fox, p. 355).
