Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses THREE HUNDRED FIGHTING REGIMENTS. 363 THIRTY-SIXTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY. STEEDMAN'S BRIGADE — SHERIDAN'S DIVISION — FOURTH CORPS. (1) COL. NICHOLAS GREUSEL. (2) COL. SILAS MILLER (Killed). (3) COL. BENJAMIN F. CAMPBELL. 204 killed — 14.8 per cent. Total killed and wounded, 739; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 12. BATTLES. K.&M.W. Dallas, Ga 6 Kenesaw Mountain, Ga 13 Atlanta, Ga 7 Franklin, Tenn 17 Nashville, Tenn 6 Skirmishes and Picket Duty 3 BATTLES. K. & M. W. Pea Ridge, Ark 10 Chaplin Hills, Ky 23 Stone's River, Tenn 65 Chickamauga, Ga 35 Missionary Ridge, Tenn 7 Resaca, Ga 7 Adairsville, Ga 5 [ Present, also, at Corinth ; Hoover's Gap; Rocky Face Ridge ; New Hope Church ; Peach Tree Creek ; Jonesboro ; Lovejoy's Station ; Spring Hill. NOTES. —Mustered in, September 23, 1861, proceeding immediately to Rolla, Mo., where it encamped until January 14, 1862. It then moved into Arkansas with Osterhaus's Brigade and fought at Pea Ridge, losing in that, its first action, 4 killed, 37 wouncfed and 27 missing. It then moved with Asboth's Division to Corinth, after which it encamped during the summer at Rienzi, Miss. In the fall it marched to Louisville, where it was assigned to Sheridan's Division in which it fought at Chaplin Hills, losing 9 killed, 64 wounded, and 4 missing. At Stone's River, it was in Sill's (ist) Brigade, Sheridan's (3d) Division, McCook's Corps ; General Sill was killed in this battle, whereupon Colonel Greusel took the command of the brigade. The regiment lost at Stone's River, 46 killed, 151 wounded, and 15 missing ; total, 212. At Chickamauga the brigade was commanded by General Lytle, the regiment losing in that action, 20 killed, 101 wounded, and 20 missing. In October, 1863, the Thirty-sixth was placed in Steedman's (ist) Brigade, Sheridan's (2d) Division, Fourth Corps, in which command it fought at Missionary Ridge. It served in the Fourth Corps during the remaining two years of its service. Gen eral Newton commanded this division on the Atlanta campaign, during which Colonel Miller was killed at Kenesaw Mountain. The brigade, under command of Colonel Emerson Opdycke (i25th Ohio), achieved a brilliant success at the battle of Franklin, where it captured ten flags and rendered efficient aid at a critical period of the fight; Lieutenant-Colonel Porter C. Olson was killed in this action. The regiment was mustered out in Texas, in October, 1865. _10359
