title: 63rd Illinois Infantry Regiment
text: # 63rd Illinois Infantry Regiment
  
  The 63rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  63rd Regiment Illinois was organized at Anna, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on April 10, 1862.
  
  The regiment was discharged from service on July 13, 1865.
  
  ## Total strength and casualties
  
  The regiment suffered 2 officers and 66 enlisted men who were killed in action or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 137 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 206 fatalities.
  
  ## Commanders
  
  * Colonel Francis Moro - resigned commission September 29, 1862.
  * Colonel Joseph B. McCowan - Mustered out with the regiment.
  