Colonel Patrick E. Burke - mortally wounded at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads on May 16, 1864 while commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.
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based on "hunter's dress" and be armed with highly accurate Plains Rifles (handmade half-stock long rifles), provided by the famed St. Louis firearms firm of Horace (H.E.) Dimick of St. Louis (a competitor of the Hawken Brothers, also of St. Louis).
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On July 8, 1862, the regiment's new commander Colonel Patrick E. Burke arrived.
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Andrew K. Campbell (1828–1867) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, and the last official commanding officer of the 66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment.