The 16th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service The 16th Illinois Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler, Illinois, between January and May 1863, from numerous independent companies of Illinois cavalry.
The regiment mustered out on August 19, 1865.
Total strength and casualties The regiment suffered 3 officers and 30 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 228 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 262 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav2.htm#16th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
Commanders Colonel Christian Thielemann - discharged August 9, 1864.http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/cav016-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls Colonel Robert Wilson Smith
Notable members George P. McLain (1847–1930), Los Angeles, California, City Council member at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries Sgt Paul Vandervoort, Company M - 11th Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, 1882–1883
See also List of Illinois Civil War Units Illinois in the American Civil War
Notes
References The Civil War Archive