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129th Illinois Infantry Regiment

17th Illinois Infantry

48th Illinois Infantry

4th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry

51st Illinois Infantry

Regimental history of the 51st Illinois Volunteer Infantry: letters, diaries, essays.

55th Illinois Infantry

59th Illinois Infantry

74th Illinois Infantry

75th Illinois Infantry

7th Illinois Cavalry

9th Illinois Cavalry

American Memorials Directory - Illinois

Ancestry.com - Search Military Records

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Military Burial Registers, 1768-1921 $

Original source: Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations, 1768-1921. Microfilm Publication M2014, 1 roll; ARC ID: 4478153. Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, Record Group 92; National Archives in Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Battery G, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery

Contains a regimental history, rosters by county and by surname, partial cemetery records, and soon, biographical sketches.

Black Hawk War (Wikipedia)

Black Hawk, a Sauk leader, and his band returned to Illinois at the invitation of the Potawatomi with the hope of regaining their land, but the governor of Illinois called up a militia to force them out.

Camp Douglas, Illinois

Prison camp and training camp.

Company L – 132nd INF – 33rd DIV

A website with a unique genealogy resource. The Men of L website contains the WWI history of Company L, 132nd Infantry, 33rd Division. The website contains 466 soldier’s biographical information and details of their training and combat operations. Their descendants and relatives are estimated to number over ten thousand. Most soldiers lived in Illinois, others were born in 26 states, and 23 foreign countries.

Confederate Burials in Mound City National Cemetery

Genealogy Quest - US Army and Navy Dead and Liberated Prisoners of War, 8 October 1945

On 8 October 1945 the war department made public new lists of casualties and of liberated prisoners of war. Listed here are the soldiers and sailors from Illinois and Indiana.