title: 52nd Illinois Infantry Regiment
text: # 52nd Illinois Infantry Regiment
  
  The 52nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 52nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Geneva, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on November 19, 1861.
  
  The regiment was mustered out on July 5, 1865.
  
  One soldier from the regiment, Sergeant Edward B. Spalding of Company E, was awarded the Medal of Honor for continuing to fight after being wounded at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.
  
  ## Total strength and casualties
  
  The regiment suffered 2 officers and 59 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 119 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 180 fatalities.
  
  ## Commanders
  
  * Colonel Isaac G. Wilson - resigned on December 9, 1861.
  * Colonel Thomas W. Sweeny - promoted brigadier general.
  * Lieutenant Colonel Edwin A. Bowen - mustered out October 24, 1864.
  * Lieutenant Colonel Jerome G. Davis - mustered out with the regiment.
  