455 McHenry County Civil War Deaths

Donald V. Purn, is quite a Civil War researcher for all things and anything McHenry County, Illinois, in the war. Last week, I was fortunate enough to hear him give a talk on blacks from McHenry County serving in the United States Colored Troops as well as whites from the county who commanded the black troops.

Most of the McHenry County deaths occurred with Illinois units, but there were deaths in the 3rd Colorado, 30th Indiana; 3rd, 15th and 32nd Iowa, 31st Massachusetts, 5th Michigan, and quite a few Wisconsin regiments: 4th, 7th, 10th, 11th, 13th, 20th, 22nd, 25th, 28th, 30th and 33rd.

--Old Secesh