|
|
The 89th Illinois Infantry Regiment, also known as
the Railroad Regiment, was formed in July and August 1862. It participated
in the battles of Stones River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Orchard Knob and
Missionary Ridge, Pickett's Mill, the Atlanta Campaign, and Nashville. The
regiment was mustered out in June 1865.
Photos of 89th
Illinois Infantry Regiment monuments on the Chickamauga battlefield
by Tom Pearson.
Click on a photo to see a larger version of it.
89th Illinois Infantry Regiment
Bibliography
Note:
Citations in this bibliography include only sources that make direct references to the 89th Illinois Infantry
Regiment, its regimental and brigade commanders, or to individual members of
that regiment. For information on the brigades or divisions to which it was attached during the war,
its division commanders, plus accounts of battles containing references to
actions in which the 89th Illinois Infantry Regiment took a direct part,
please refer to the bibliographies on particular battles in which the 89th
Illinois Infantry Regiment participated.
Annual Report of the Adjutant
General of the State of Illinois (Springfield, IL: Baker &
Phillips, Printers, 1863) 32-37, 71.
Robert S. Brandt, "Lightning and Rain in
Middle Tennessee: The Campaign of June-July 1863," Tennessee Historical
Quarterly 52 (Fall 1993) 158-169.
Charles Capron, Private, Company A, 89th Illinois Infantry
Regiment, Compiled Military Service Record (Washington, DC: National Archives, Record
Group 94, Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers From
the State of Illinois).
Charles Capron,
letter to Mary S. Capron, 23 January 1865, Charles Capron Collection, Old
Courthouse Museum, Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Joel R. Chambers, War Fever
Cured: the Civil War Diary of Joel R. Chambers, 1864-1865, Cheryl H. Beneke &
Carol D. Summer, eds. (Memphis, TN: W. R. Glasgow, Citizens Education
Council 1980).
Alexis Cope, The Fifteenth Ohio Volunteers
and Its Campaigns, War of 1861-5 (1916; Columbus, OH: The General's Books,
1993) 233-237, 286-293, 435-436, 450-451.
Roy S. Dickens & Linda H. Worthy,
Archaeological Investigations at Pickett's Mill Historic Site, Paulding
County, Georgia (Atlanta, GA: Georgia Department of Natural Resources,
1984).
89th Illinois Infantry Regiment,
Descriptive Roster, October 25, 1863 (this item is in the 89th Illinois
Infantry Regimental File, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, Illinois,
89th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Regimental File (Springfield, IL: Illinois
State Archives).
Alfred D. French, letter to his
granddaughter, Kathie, 23 October 1933 (a copy of this 12-page letter was
kindly furnished to me by David French of N. Fort Myers, Florida).
Franklin M. Hobbs, letter to E. A. Carman, Chairman of the Chickamauga &
National Park Commission, 22 January 1906.
Holloway Giles,
Pvt.,
Co. D, 89th Illinois Infantry Regiment,
Compiled Military Service Record (Washington, DC:
National Archives:
Record Group 94, Compiled Military Service Records of
Volunteer Union Soldiers From the State of Illinois-
kindly furnished to me by Barry Giles of Crown Point, Indiana).
Charles Truman Hotchkiss,
Colonel, 89th
Illinois Infantry Regiment,
Compiled Military Service Record
(Washington, DC: National Archives
and Records Administration, Record Group 94, Compiled Military Service
Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers from the State of Illinois).
Charles Truman Hotchkiss,
Colonel, 89th Illinois Infantry
Regiment,
Military Pension Record (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records
Administration, Civil War and Later Pensions Series).
Organization of the Eighty-Ninth Illinois Volunteer Infantry Reunion
Association, Together With a Register of Membership, and Report of First
Primary Meeting, Held at Yorkville, Ill., Sept. 4, 1884, and First Annual
Reunion, Held at the Palmer House, Chicago, January 22, 1885 (Aurora, IL: J.
H. Hodder & Co., 1886).
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois,
rev. by Brigadier General J. N. Reece (Springfield, IL: Phillips Brothers
Printers, 1901) vol. 5, 261-288.
George G. Sinclair, letters to Frances E. Sinclair, August 1862-June
1863
(all Sinclair letters cited in this book are among those included in
a transcription owned by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
and Museum in Springfield, Illinois- transcription was provided
to ALPL by Sinclair's great-grandson, George Shuman, of New Madison, Ohio).
Charles D. Stewart, "A Bachelor
General," Wisconsin Magazine of History 17 (December 1933) 149-150.
Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, ed.
By Janet B. Hewett
(Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 1995) Part II, Record of Events,
Volume 13, Serial No. 25, 391-407.
United States. Pension Bureau, List of Pensioners on the
Roll, January 1, 1883: Giving the Name of Each Pensioner, the Cause for
Which Pensioned, the Post-Office Address, the Rate of Pension Per Month, and
the Date of Original Allowance, as Called for by Senate Resolution of
December 8, 1882 (1883: Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970.
United States. War Department. The
War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901)
Series I, Volume XX, Part I, 207-217, 259-262, 294-295, 304-305, 308, 310.
United States. War Department. The War
of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901)
Series I, Volume XXIII, Part I, 484-496, 584.
United States. War Department. The War
of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901)
Series I, Volume XXX, Part I,
57-60, 250-251, 253-254, 367-369, 402-404, 430-431, 523-524,
539, 540-546,
634-635,
695, 704-705, 763-764, 854-856.
United States. War Department. The War of the
Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901)
Series I, Volume XXX, Part II, 203-205,
245-246, 252-253, 338-339,
456-457, 461-464, 504-505, 510-511, 517-518.
United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation
of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office, 1880-1901) Series I, Volume XXXI, Part II,
34-35, 68, 96, 252-258, 264, 269, 277, 290.
United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: a
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901) Series I, Volume
XXXII, Part II, 820.
United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: a
Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
(Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901) Series I, Volume
XXXVIII, Part I, 193-195, 373, 389-392, 401-402,
450-451.
United States. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1902) Series
III, Volume V, 746.
Frank E. Vandiver, Civil War
Battlefields and Landmarks, With Official National Park Service Maps for
Each Site (New York: Random House, 1996),
Benjamin Abbott, letter concerning death of
Lt. Colonel D. J. Hall dated 26 September 1863 (addressee not given),
quoted in Vandiver 125.
Preston Warner, Undercook, Company H, 89th Illinois Infantry Regiment,
Military Pension Record (Washington, DC: National Archives and Records
Administration, Civil War and Later Pension Series).
Frank J. Welcher, The
Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations, vol. 2: the
Western Theater (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989) 436, 516-519.
Ebenezer Tracy Wells, "The Campaign and Battle of Chickamauga," United
Service Magazine 16 (1896) 205-233.
Isaac K. Young, "Chickamauga- the Battle as I Saw It," National
Tribune (April 22, 1886).
TELL ME ABOUT YOUR
89TH ILLINOIS INFANTRY REGIMENT ANCESTOR:
SIGN
UP! Let me know if you would be willing to share photos of your 89th
Illinois Infantry Regiment ancestor,
of the 89th Illinois' battlefields, or photos of memorabilia, documents, or the
gravesite
of your 89th
Illinois ancestor. You can contact me
here.
Text and photos © copyright 2004 by Thomas
A. Pearson. All rights reserved. Last revised: 31 July 2006.
|
