. The photographic history of the civil . per cent, of the Ninety-third. No Federal regiment lost as much as 20 per cent,killed and only L200 out of the 3,559 organizations as much as ten per cent. The Thirty-sixth Illinois lost ■2()4men out of a total enrollment of 1,376. These figures refer to deaths alone, excluding wounded and the battle of Stones River, Tennessee, the regiment lost forty-six killed, 151 wounded, and fifteen missing,a total of 212. This was its heaviest blow in any one battle. It fought at Pea Ridge, an early engagement inthe West, at Chaplin Hills, a
. The photographic history of the civil . per cent, of the Ninety-third. No Federal regiment lost as much as 20 per cent,killed and only L200 out of the 3,559 organizations as much as ten per cent. The Thirty-sixth Illinois lost ■2()4men out of a total enrollment of 1,376. These figures refer to deaths alone, excluding wounded and the battle of Stones River, Tennessee, the regiment lost forty-six killed, 151 wounded, and fifteen missing,a total of 212. This was its heaviest blow in any one battle. It fought at Pea Ridge, an early engagement inthe West, at Chaplin Hills, at the bloody battle of Chickamauga, and on the corpse-strewn slopes of Mission-ary Ridge. It fought under Sherman from Resaca to Atlanta, and when that general marched away on hisexpedition to the coast, the Thirty-sixth turned back to suffer its fourth largest loss in killed at the battle ofFranklin, and to help Thomas crush Hood at the battle of Nashville. Such were the Western fighting regiments. A REGIMENT THAT LOST ^ IN KILLED ALONE. ILLINOIS INFANTRYIN THE WEST OFFICERS OF THE 3t»TH ILLINOIS
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