98th Illinois Infantry Regiment

98th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry/Illinois Volunteer Mounted Infantry
	Illinois flag
Active	September 3, 1862, to July 29, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Mounted infantry
Equipment	Spencer repeating rifle
Engagements	American Civil War Battle of Hoover's Gap; Battle of Chickamauga; Battle of Resaca; Siege of Atlanta;

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.[1]

Service

The 98th Illinois Infantry was organized at Centralia, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 3, 1862.[2][3][4]

The regiment was converted to mounted infantry on March 8, 1863.[5] An element of "Wilder's Lightning Brigade", a unit that pioneered the use of mounted infantry.[6] As part of that brigade, it performed admirably in the Tullahoma[7][6][8] and Chickamauga campaigns. Its superior firepower[5] 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 rebels[9] This combat power prevented much larger Confederate units from crossing a bridge on the first day of Chickamauga[10][11] and stopped the left column of the Bragg's key breakthrough on the second day.[12]

The regiment was mustered out on June 27, 1865, and discharged at Springfield, Illinois, on July 7, 1865.[2]

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.[4][2]

Commanders

Colonel John J. Funkhouser - Discharged due to wounds July 5, 1864.[4]

Notes

Dyer
Official Records of the American Civil War of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. War Department
Baumgartner, p. 70
Reece
Wilder's Lightning Brigade and Its Spencer Repeaters, Sunderland
Lightning at Hoover's Gap: the Story of Wilder's Brigade, Sunderland
The Fall of Chattanooga, Robertson
Kennedy, p. 225.
McLemore's Cove, Robertson
The Armies Collide, Robertson
Day 1, Robertson
Day 2, Robertson

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