90th Illinois Infantry Regiment

The 90th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

On two occasions, the unit included a disguised woman (Frances Elizabeth Quinn) in its ranks.

The first time she was discovered and dismissed within a month by Colonel Tomothy O'Meara.

The regiment suffered 2 officers and 58 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 1 officer and 87 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 148 fatalities.

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