130th Illinois Infantry

130th Illinois Infantry Regimental Monument

NPS / P. Winfrey

Monument is located on Union Avenue 150 yards south of the Minnesota Memorial, approximately .5 miles from the Visitor's Center. Also a marker designating the assault of 22 May 1863, located on Confederate Avenue at the Railroad Redoubt, Park Tour Stop #13 and a marker designating a sharpshooter's line located in the mowed gallery running north & south 400 yards west-southwest of the Minnesota Memorial. This unit was attached to Col. William J. Landram's 2nd Brigade of Brig. Gen. Andrew J. Smith's 10th Division, Maj. Gen'ls John A. McClernand (relieved of command 19 June 1863) & Edward O.C. Ord's XIII Army Corps and was commanded by Lt. Col. Nathaniel Niles.

 

Monument Inscription (Alt-Text):

130TH INFANTRY.
COL. NATHANIEL NILES.
2d., 10th Div., 13th Corps.

CASUALTIES:
Port Gibson, May 1, 1863, Wounded 1,
Missing 1, Total 2;
Assault, May 19, Killed 2, Wounded 7,
Total 9;
Assault, May 22, Killed 10, Wounded 31,
Total 41,
Capt. William M. Colby Killed.
Aggregate, Killed 12, Wounded 39,
Missing 1, Total 52.

ILLINOIS

 

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