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24th Illinois Infantry Regiment

Field	Value
unit_name	24th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry "1st Hecker Regt"
image	Flag of Illinois.svg
image_size	100
caption	Illinois state flag
dates	July 8, 1861, to August 6, 1864
country	United States
allegiance	Union
branch	Infantry
battles	Battle of Perryville

Battle of Stones River Battle of Chickamauga Battle of Missionary Ridge Battle of Resaca Battle of Kennesaw Mountain

Friedrich Hecker, the first colonel of the regiment

The 24th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, also known as the 1st Hecker Jaeger Regiment, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was made up almost exclusively of German, Swiss, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak immigrants. It was the first unit mobilised for the war in Chicago, and was composed of many Forty-Eighters, veterans of the revolutions of 1848 in Germany and the Austrian Empire.

Service

''Battle of Perryville--the extreme left--Starkweather's brigade'' which included the 24th.

The 24th Illinois Infantry was organized at Chicago, Illinois and recruited from counties of Cook, McLean and LaSalle, and mustered into Federal service on July 8, 1861.

The regiment was divided into companies from A to K.

It was assigned to the Army of the Ohio in November 1861 and later was transformed to the Army of the Cumberland in November 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on August 6, 1864.

Battles and campaigns they participated in

Battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862
Battle of Stones River, December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863
Tullahoma Campaign, June 24 to July 3, 1863
Battle of Chickamauga, September 18–20, 1863
Battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863
Atlanta campaign, May 7 – September 2, 1864
- Battle of Resaca, May 13–15, 1864
- Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 3 officers and 86 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 2 officers and 82 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 173 fatalities.

Prominent personnel

Colonel Frederick Hecker - resigned on December 23, 1861.
Colonel Géza Mihalotzy - killed on March 11, 1864.
Colonel Emil Frey
William Wagner, surgeon, wrote down the regiment's history

Footnotes

References

http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilinf2.htm#24th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. '''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'''. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. - retrieved June 25, 2007.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/024-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls - retrieved June 26, 2007.
William Wagner: History of the 24th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Old Hecker Regiment), 1911, [https://archive.org/details/historyof24thill00wagn/mode/2up archive.org]

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