80th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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The 80th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry
Infantry
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 regiment
Regiment
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 that served in the Union Army
Union Army
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 during the American Civil War
American Civil War
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Service

The 80th Illinois Infantry was organized at Centralia, Illinois
Centralia, Illinois
Centralia is a town located in Marion, Washington, Clinton, and Jefferson Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 13,032 at the 2010 census. The town was founded because it was the point where the two original branches of the Illinois Central Railroad, built in 1853, converged....

 and mustered into Federal service on August 25, 1862.

The regiment was mustered out on June 10, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered the loss of 6 officers and 52 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 160 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 218 fatalities.

Commanders

  • Colonel
    Colonel
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     Thomas G. Allen - Resigned April 21, 1863.
  • Lieutenant Colonel
    Lieutenant colonel
    Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies and most marine forces and some air forces of the world, typically ranking above a major and below a colonel. The rank of lieutenant colonel is often shortened to simply "colonel" in conversation and in unofficial correspondence...

    Andrew F. Rogers - Discharged November 25, 1864.
  • Lieutenant Colonel Erastus N. Bates - Mustered out with the regiment.
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