Category: 8th Illinois Volunteer Infantry (Colored Troops), Spanish-American War

Categories: United States Army Regiments, Spanish-American War | Illinois, Spanish-American War | African-Americans in the Spanish-American War

Mustered In: 12-21 July 1898 at Springfield, Illinois

Mustered Out: 3 April 1899 at Chicago, Illinois

Service Beyond the United States: Cuba

Leaving the United States: 11 August 1898

Arrival in Foreign Country: 16 August 1898

Leaving Foreign Country: 10 March 1899

Returned to United States: 15 March 1899

Mustered In:

Officers: 43

Enlisted Men: 1,226

Mustered Out:

Officers: 46

Enlisted Men: 1,180

Total Number Accounted for on Muster Out Roll:

Officers: 49

Enlisted Men: 1,244

Mustered out of the service of the United States at Chicago, Ill., April 3, 1899. Causalities while in service: Officers-none. Enlisted men-died of disease, 16; killed by accident, 2; murdered, 1; deserted, 9.

Assigned to:

• Cuba Occupation Force

See: American Volunteer Forces in the War with Spain

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