Showing posts with label 136th IL INF. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 15, 2014

136th Illinois Infantry

Organized at Centralia, Ill., and mustered in for 100 days June 1, 1864. Moved to Cairo, Ill.; thence to Columbus, Ky. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., Dept. of the Tennessee, to August, 1864, and Department of the Ohio to September, 1864. Assigned to Garrison duty at Columbus, Ky., till September 26. Expedition to Mayfield, Ky., August 12-16. Reenlisted for 15 days' service against Price's Invasion of Missouri, and on duty at various points about St. Louis, Mo., till October 15. Mustered out at Camp Butler, Ill., October 22, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 2 Enlisted men killed and 2 Officers and 40 Enlisted men by disease. Total 44.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1101