28th Illinois Infantry Monument: The Peach Orchard, Shiloh National Military Park

ILLINOIS

28^TH INFANTRY

1^ST BRIGADE – WILLIAMS

4^TH DIVISION – HURLBUT

ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE

28TH INFANTRY

COMMANDED BY

COL. A. K. JOHNSON.

Held this line and one about 200 yards south against heavy and constant fire from 9.30 a.m. to 2.00 p.m., April 6, 1862, then retreated to the woods on the north side of this field. The regiment lost in the battle 2 officers and 27 men killed; 8 officers and 203 men wounded; 1 officer and 4 men missing; total, 245.