Regiment:

28th Infantry Regiment IL

Date Mustered:

15 March 1866

Regiment Type:

Infantry

Enlisted Died of Disease or Accident:

9

Officers Died of Disease or Accident:

97

Enlisted Killed or Mortally Wounded:

2

Regimental Soldiers and History:

List of Soldiers

Regimental History
ILLINOIS  28TH INFANTRY
Three Years

Twenty-eighth Infantry.-Col., Amory K. Johnson; Lieut-Cols., Louis H. Waters, Thomas M. Kilpatrick, Richard Ritter; Majs, Charles J. Sellon, Barclay C. Gillam, Hinman Rhodes.  This regiment was composed of three companies from Pike county, one from Fulton, one from Schuyler, one from McDonough, one from Mason one from Scott, and two from Menard.  It was organized at Camp Butier, Aug. 15, 1861, and was mustered into the service for three years. On Aug. 28, it was ordered to St. Louis, Mo., where it was armed. On Feb. 13, 1862, a detachment of 48 men and 12 officers met Col. Claiborne's Confederate cavalry, 500 strong, at Little Bethel Church, 5 miles west of Fort Heiman, and immediately attacked them, taking 2 prisoners. In the opening of the battle of Shiloh the regiment was assigned to a position on the left of the line, in the Peach orchard, which position the enemy immediately attacked, but was repulsed with heavy loss, and the regiment held its position, against great odds from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. In this conflict it lost heavily in killed and wounded. On the morning of the second day the regiment held a position on the right of the line and was hotly engaged until the battle closed and the victory was won. In the two days' fighting it sustained a loss of 239, killed, wounded and missing. It was engaged in the siege of Corinth during the
month of May. At the battle of Davis' bridge in the following October, Gen. Lauman ordered the 2nd brigade, of which the regiment formed a part, to take the bridge and cross to the east side of the river, which was done amidst a most terrific fire. A battery in front of the 28th was dealing death and destruction, and the regiment was ordered to charge and take it at all hazards, which it did most gallantly, capturing 6
guns and caissons, 1 flag, and 1 officer in uniform. On Oct. 28, it returned to Bolivar, bearing a tattered flag, with the loss of 97 men killed, wounded and missing. It was engaged in the siege of Vicksburg from June 11, to July 4, 1863, and occupied a position to the left of the center, on the Hall's Ferry road. On July 12, near Jackson Miss., the 28th, with other regiments of the brigade, not exceeding 800 men, charged across an open, level cornfield, some 600 yards under a destructive fire of grape, canister and minie bullets. The
enemy appearing upon both flanks as it reached the ditch, the Federals were compelled to fall back, with a loss of more than half of the rank and file killed and wounded. The eight companies of this regiment in line, numbering 128 men, lost 73 killed and wounded, and 16 taken prisoners. On Jan. 4, 1864, the regiment, having reenlisted as a veteran organization, was mustered for three years' veteran service, and on May 18,
proceeded to Illinois for veteran furlough. Returning to the front, it served as a regiment until the following October, when it was consolidated into a battalion of four companies.

Twenty-eighth (Consolidated) Infantry.-Cols., Richard Ritter, Hinman Rhodes, Lieut.-Cols., Richard Ritter, Hinman Rhodes, Edwin P Durell; Majs., Hinman Rhodes, Edwin P. Durell, Albert J. Moses. On Oct. 10, 1864, the original 28th regiment was consolidated into four companies, and on the 12th embarked
for Morganza, La., Brig.-Gen. Lawler commanding 1st brigade, 19th army corps. On Nov. 22, at Memphis it received 200 recruits, which were organized into two companies, and the battalion was assigned to the 1st brigade, district of West Tennessee. In Jan., 1865, it was transferred to Louisiana and in March, was in the advance upon Spanish Fort, occupying the extreme right of its division and corps. It held this position during the entire siege of 14 days, losing 14 killed and wounded, including 2 captains. On April 7, Cos. G and H joined the regiment from Camp Butler, Ill., and on April 13, the regiment marched to Whistler Station and skirmished with the enemy. On April 15, Cos. I and K joined the regiment from Camp Butler, Ill., and this gave the regiment its full complement of companies. In the following July, it was sent
to Texas and remained in that state until March 15, 1866, when it was mustered out at Brownsville, after a total service from the date of its first organization of four years and seven months. During that time 1,720 men had enlisted in the organization, and of these, 61 were killed, 34 died of wounds, 284 were wounded, 4 commissioned officers were dismissed, 17 enlisted men were missing in action, 5 were killed accidentally, 141 died of disease, 494 were discharged, and 21 were transferred.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 3

Battles Fought

Fought at La Grange, TN.
Fought on 06 April 1862 at Shiloh, TN.
Fought on 07 April 1862 at Shiloh, TN.
Fought on 05 October 1862 at Metamora, TN.
Fought on 12 July 1863 at Jackson, MS.
Fought on 12 July 1863 at Jackson, TN.
Fought on 16 July 1863.
Fought on 15 July 1864.
Fought on 22 July 1864 at Vidalia, LA.
Fought on 20 September 1864 at Natchez, MS.
Fought on 27 March 1865 at Spanish Fort, AL.
Fought on 28 March 1865 at Spanish Fort, AL.

Name:

Oliver Kile Kile

Spouse:

Susan Amesly Overman

Parents:

Oliver Coil Kile Kile , Nancy   Jones

Birth Place:

Ross Co, Ohio

Birth Date:

9 Dec 1829

Marriage Place:

Sullivan County, Missouri

Marriage Date:

2 Mar 1856

Death Place:

General Hospital, Natchez, Mississippi

Death Date:

13 Sep 1863