66th Illinois Infantry

Origins of Companies

• A---Out of State
• B---Out of State
• C---Bureau & Logan Counties
• D---state of Michigan [Michigan Sharpshooters]
• E---Edgar County
• F---state of Missouri
• G---state of Ohio [Ohio Sharpshooters]
• H---state of Ohio [Ohio Sharpshooters]
• I---Lawrence County
• K---state of Ohio [Ohio Sharpshooters]

History

• organized as J. W. Birge's Regiment of Western Sharpshooters [Sept-Oct 1861].
• originally mustered in as the 14th Missouri Infantry [Nov 1861]
• transfered to Illinois, renamed 66th Illinois Infantry in Nov 1862.

Some of their larger engagements were

• Shiloh
• Corinth, Mississippi
• the Atlanta Campaign [including Resaca, Kenesaw, Atlanta]
• March to the sea

Rosters

• at Illinois State Archives

Miscellaneous

• Visit The Western SharpShooter Web site of the Reenactment Unit for the 66th Illinois Infantry

Bibliography

1. With the Western Sharpshooters--Michigan Boys of Company D, 66th Illinois by Lorenzo A. Barker. Huntington, Wyo.: (1994) Reprint, originally published under the title: Military History . . . Birge's Western Sharpshooters in the Civil War 1861-1865
2. see also US Army Military History Institute - 66th Illinois
3. see also US Army Military History Institute - 14th Missouri
4. see also Bibliography of State-Wide References

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