Lake County & The Civil War
Lake County sent 1,890 men to serve in the Civil War. We only had a population of 18,300, as of the 1860 Federal Census.
Infantry -
15th
Regiment -- Company I - 5/24/1861 to 9/1/1865
Consolidated 7/1/1864 with the 14th Infantry to
form the "14th and 15th Illinois Veteran Battalion", a single battalion
despite the name.
19th
Regiment -- Company C - 6/17/1861 to 7/9/1864
37th
Regiment -- Company C,
F
- 9/18/1861 to 5/15/1866
51st
Regiment -- Company G - 12/24/1861 to 9/25/1865
AKA: Chicago Legion; Ryan's Life Guards
65th
Regiment -- Company F - 5/1/1862 to 7/26/1865
AKA: Second Scotch Regiment; Cameron's
Highlanders
Men from the 92nd, 107th and 112th Regiments
transferred to the 65th to bring it back up to strength, June 1865.
96th
Regiment -- Company C, D, G - 9/6/1862 to 6/10/1865
103rd
Regiment -- Company B - 10/2/1862 to 6/14/1865
146th
Regiment -- Company D - 9/18/1864 to 7/5/1865
147th
Regiment -- Company A, I - 2/18-19/1865 to 1/20/1866
153rd
Regiment -- Company H - 2/27/1865 to 5/15/1865
Artillery
1st
Regiment -- Battery B - 3 months: 5/2/1861
3 years: 7/16/1861 to 7/2/1865
AKA: (Samuel E.) Barrentt's Battery; Chicago
Light Artillery; Taylor's Battery; White's Battery; Bridges Battery; and
Ramsey's Battery.
Other Resources for Illinois:
ILGenWeb's Illinois in
the Civil War
Illinois Civil
War Rosters by County
The State of
Illinois Civil War Search