The 36th Illinois Infantry entered U.S. service in September 1861, and saw significant action at the battles of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, and Perryville, Kentucky in 1862. In late December 1862, the regiment was part of Brigadier General Joshua Sill’s brigade of Brigadier General Phillip Sheridan’s division of the 14th Corps in the Army of the [...]
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The border state of Kentucky had divided loyalties in the Civil War. It was a slave state and had a large faction that favored secession, but there were also many who were ardent supporters of the Union. In May 1861, Governor Beriah Magoffin declared the state to be neutral and refused requests from both the Federal [...]
On the afternoon of September 14th, 1862, the 4th Brigade of the 1st Division of the 1st Corps, of the Army the Potomac was ordered to advance west up the National Road and attack the Confederate defenders of Turner’s Gap on South Mountain in Maryland. This brigade, consisting of the 2nd, 6th, and 7th Wisconsin and [...]
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