Showing posts with label 139th IL INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 139th IL INF. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

139th Illinois Infantry

Organized at Peoria, Ill., and mustered in for 100 days June 1, 1864. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., June 8-10; thence to Columbus, Ky. Moved to Cairo, Ill., June 20; and on Garrison duty there till September. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., Dept. of the Tennessee, to August, and Dept. of the Ohio to September. Moved to Peoria September 25-28. Volunteered for service during Price's Invasion of Missouri and moved to St. Louis. March into Missouri toward Franklin in pursuit of Price, October. Mustered out October 25, 1864.

Lost by disease during service 16.

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