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70th Illinois Infantry Regiment

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ4643031 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 70th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 70th Regiment was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on July 4, 1862, for a term of three months. The regiment was assigned to Camp Butler, where it guarded prisoners, and mustered out on October 23, 1862.

Total strength and casualties

The 70th Regiment suffered 19 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 19 fatalities.

Commanders

Colonel Owen T. Reeves - mustered out with the regiment.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “70th Illinois Infantry Regiment” as military unit. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1862—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1862-01-01. The account is most persuasive where 70th, Illinois and Infantry can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as military unit. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4643031. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1862.

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This entry incorporates text from “70th Illinois Infantry Regiment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.