16th U. S. Infantry Regiment

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1861-10

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1865-07

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"16th U. S. Infantry Regiment" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00019121, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Organized at Chicago, Illinois. Mustered into service in October 1861. Mustered out of service in July 1865. Commander: Colonel Andrew Porter and Edwin F. Townsend

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application 246460, Certificate 187382.
Frederick Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1714-5.
Frank J. Welcher, _The Union Army, 1861-1865: Organization and Operations, Volume II: The Western Theater, (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 1993), 805

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