77th Illinois Infantry

77th Illinois Infantry Regimental Monument

NPS/ P. Winfrey

Monument is located on Union Avenue 400 yards south of the Minnesota Memorial. Also a marker designating the assault of 22 May 1863, on Confederate Avenue at the Railroad Redoubt and a marker designating a sharpshooter's in the mowed gallery running north and 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 Col. David P. Grier.

 

Monument Inscription (Alt-Text)

77th INFANTRY.
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COL. DAVID P. GRIER.
2d Brig., 10th Div., 13th Corps.

CASUALTIES:
Champion's Hill, May 16, 1863,
Wounded 1; Assault, May 22, Killed
19, Wounded 85, Missing 26.
Total 130.
Aggregate, Killed 19, Wounded 86,
Missing 26, Total 131.

ILLINOIS

 

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