Service
The 92nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Rockford, Illinois and mustered into Federal service on September 4, 1862.
The regiment was converted to mounted infantry on July 22, 1863 and assigned to Brigadier General John T. Wilder's Lightning Brigade. An element of "Wilder's Mounted Infantry."
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