Illinois 70th Infantry (Union)

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Regiment mustered in on July 4th, 1862. Regiment mustered out of service on October 23rd, 1862.

Regiment was made up of:

• Company A
• Company B
• Company C
• Company D
• Company E
• Company F
• Company G
• Company H
• Company I
• Company K
• Company F&S (Field and Staff)

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

• Breese, James B. (First Lieutenant/Lieutenant/adjutant, July 1862 - October 1862)
• Burrows, James B (Quartermaster/Lieutenant/quartermaster, July 1862 - October 1862)
• Guest, Samuel M. (First Lieutenant, May 1864 - November 1864)
• Lacy, William C. (Chaplain, July 1862 - October 1862)
• Lewis, William M. (Sergeant Major, June 1862 - August 1862; Second Lieutenant, August 1862 - October 1862)
• McCullough, James (Sergeant Major, June 1862 - October 1862)
• Reece, Madison (Assistant Surgeon, July 1862 - October 1862)
• Rutledge, John H. (Fife Major/Princ Musician, June 1862 - July 1862; Fife Major, July 1862 - October 1862)
• Sage, John E (Lieutenant Colonel, July 1862 - October 1862)
• Scibird, Joseph H (Major, July 1862 - October 1862)
• Whiting, Benjamin S. (First Lieutenant/Regimental Commissary Sergeant, April 1864 - November 1864)
• Wright, Jesse (Hospital Steward, July 1862 - October 1862)