73rd Illinois Infantry Regiment

73rd Regiment Illinois was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on August 21, 1862.

The regiment was discharged from service on June 10, 1865.

The regiment suffered 5 officers and 109 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 167 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 281 fatalities.[http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#73rd Union Regimental Histories. Illinois] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108015408/http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf5.htm#73rd |date=2007-11-08 }}. The Civil War Archive website, after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.

• Colonel James F. Jacquess – Mustered out with the regiment.[https://web.archive.org/web/20010701101053/http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f%26s/073-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls]

• List of Illinois Civil War Units
• Illinois in the American Civil War

• [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]

• {{Internet Archive|02086101.3076.emory.edu|A history of the Seventy-third Regiment of Illinois Infantry Volunteers (1890)}}

Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois

Category:1862 establishments in Illinois

Category:Military units and formations established in 1862

Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865

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