16th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

16th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Flag of Illinois.svg 100 Illinois flag December 25, 1862, to August 31, 1865 United States Union Cavalry Battle of Resaca Siege of Atlanta Battle of Franklin Battle of Nashville Illinois U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiments 1861-1865 15th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment 17th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment The 16th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 16th Illinois Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, between January and May 1863, from numerous independent companies of Illinois cavalry. The regiment mustered out on August 19, 1865. Total strength and casualties The regiment suffered 3 officers and 30 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 228 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 262 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav2.htm#16th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Commanders Colonel Christian Thielemann - discharged August 9, 1864.http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/cav016-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls Colonel Robert Wilson Smith Notable members George P. McLain (1847–1930), Los Angeles, California, City Council member at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries Sgt Paul Vandervoort, Company M - 11th Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1882–1883 See also List of Illinois Civil War Units Illinois in the American Civil War Notes References The Civil War Archive Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois Category:1862 establishments in Illinois Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865