Illinois 50th Infantry, Company H (Union)

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Company mustered in on September 12th, 1861. Company mustered out of service on July 13th, 1865.

Company was also known as:

• Company H, Illinois Blind Half-Hundred (Union)

Facts about this Company:

• Number of Soldiers: 128
• First Enlistment Date: 1861-05-24 (1 soldier)
• Most Common Enlistment Date: 1861-09-30 (63 soldiers)
• Most Common Muster Out Date: 1865-07-13 (37 soldiers)
• Most Common Residence for 1861: Brown County, Illinois (56 soldiers)
• Youngest Soldier at Enlistment: 16 -- Long, James Henry
• Oldest Soldier at Enlistment: 23 -- Fullinwider, John C (Second Lieutenant;First Lieutenant;Corporal)
• Average Age at Enlistment: 19.4 years old
• Median Age at Enlistment: 19.5 years old
• Wounded In Regiment: 4 (3%)
• Prisoner Of War While In Regiment: 2 (1%)
• Soldiers That Died While In Regiment: 18 (13%)
• Soldiers That Died While In War: 20 (15%)

Commander List: (#Prisoner Of War, ^Wounded, %=Died during war)

• Atchison, James T. (#First Sergeant, September 1861 - July 1865)
• Brayden, Lymus (Under Cook/Undercook, December 1863 - July 1865)
• Collins, David (Corporal, September 1861 - June 1862)
• Cooper, Hiram E. (Corporal, September 1861 - July 1862)
• Dennis, Lambert P. (Sergeant, October 1861 - March 1862)
• Dennis, William B. (Corporal, October 1861 - March 1862)
• Dixon, Francis M. (Corporal, September 1861 - July 1865)
• Friday, John (Corporal, September 1861 - July 1865)
• Fullinwider, John C (Second Lieutenant, November 1864 - November 1865; First Lieutenant/Corporal, November 1865 - March 1866)
• Glenn, Fielding S. (First Sergeant/Lieutenant/Sergeant, September 1861 - June 1862; Second Lieutenant/Lieutenant, June 1862 - March 1863)
• Glenn, James M. (Corporal, September 1861 - September 1864)
• Glenn, Samuel R. (Captain, October 1861 - November 1861; Major, April 1862 - October 1862)
• Hardin, William H. H. (Corporal, September 1861 - October 1861)
• Havens, Edmund T. (Second Lieutenant/Sergeant, August 1863 - May 1865)
• Hawkes, James (%First Sergeant, September 1861 - March 1865)
• Hughes, William H. (Corporal, January 1864 - July 1865)
• Hurd, Riley (Corporal, February 1864 - July 1865)
• Ishmael, Francis D. (Corporal, ? - October 1861; Corporal, October 1861 - March 1862)
• Ishmael, William S (First Lieutenant, October 1861 - March 1862)
• Lambert, Richard H. (Corporal, September 1861 - July 1865)
• Logsdon, Perry (First Lieutenant/Sergeant/Lieutenant, June 1865 - July 1865)
• Long, David P. (%Corporal/Sergeant, September 1861 - March 1864)
• Long, John P. (Sergeant, September 1861 - July 1865)
• Martin, Gale (Corporal, September 1861 - August 1862)
• McKenzie, Henry (Corporal, February 1864 - July 1865)
• McNeil, Isaac (Sergeant, September 1861 - March 1863; Second Lieutenant, March 1863 - August 1864; First Lieutenant, August 1864 - June 1865; Captain, June 1865 - July 1865)
• Murphy, Miles D. (First Lieutenant, March 1862 - June 1862; Captain, June 1862 - September 1862)
• Nesbitt, James T. (Sergeant, September 1861 - September 1864)
• North, Bernard A. (Sergeant, September 1861 - July 1865)
• Powell, Rufus (%Corporal, September 1861 - June 1862)
• Shepard, William (Corporal, March 1864 - July 1865)
• Snyder, William B. (Captain, September 1861 - January 1863)
• Swan, James W (Sergeant, September 1861 - September 1864)
• Tapp, William H (Corporal, September 1861 - December 1862)
• Wait, Walter S. (Sergeant, September 1861 - September 1862; Captain, September 1862 - October 1864)

Soldier List: (#Prisoner Of War, ^Wounded, %=Died during war)

• Abbott, John (^)
• Albert, William
• Ammonett, James P. (^)
• Atchison, James F.
• Bailey, William H.
• Baker, Albert
• Bates, Matthew (%)
• Beecher, John W.
• Bell, John A.
• Benton, Timothy D.
• Biggs, William A
• Bissell, Benjamin B.
• Bissell, Horace
• Bolliard, Franklin
• Bowen, Andrew J.
• Bowman, Newton
• Bruner, Zachariah (%)
• Burnett, Alfred
• Burnett, Newton T.
• Byers, James W.
• Carter, Andrew L
• Chapman, Samuel V.
• Clark, George W. (%)
• Clark, Jeremiah (^)
• Clark, W Harrison
• Coffman, John (%)
• Coffman, Joshua
• Cole, Andrew J. (%)
• Cooper, John
• Culp, Benjamin F.
• East, Haley (%)
• East, Thomas M.
• Euler, Peter
• Floyd, Richard J.
• Friday, George W
• Friday, George W.
• Friday, Jacob
• Friday, Simon
• Gibson, Jesse
• Gordon, James R. (%)
• Gough, Charles
• Hendricks, Rudy
• Herring, Francis M.
• Herring, John W.
• Herring, John W.
• Herring, John W.
• Herring, John W. (#)
• Hobbs, Campbell
• How, Bela W.
• Howser, Charles F.
• Lane, John
• Lester, Dallas
• Lewis, Thomas F.
• Logsdon, William
• Long, James Henry
• Marietta, Chauncey F
• Marietta, Jacob
• Marietta, Joseph
• Masterson, William B
• McClure, Charles W.
• McConnell, Washington
• McDaniel, John W
• McDonald, Levi T (%)
• McKenzie, James
• Measles, James M. (%)
• Mikesell, Charles
• Miller, Isaac W.
• Milton, William T.
• Moody, James W.
• Oatman, Christopher C. (%)
• Powell, George B.
• Queen, William J.
• Radinger, Isaac J.
• Radinger, James
• Radinger, Jesse F. (%)
• Ray, John
• Reaves, Alma
• Roberts, George
• Roberts, Levi
• Roberts, William C.
• Sebastian, William L.
• Severs, William B
• Snodgrass, Alexander (%)
• Snodgrass, George H. (^%)
• Spencer, Edward
• Spencer, Mark (%)
• Swan, Jason W
• Tapp, William H
• Tapp, William H.
• Taylor, Creed S.
• White, S (%)
• Willmot, James W.
• Wilson, Jonathan