Showing posts with label 148th IL INF. Show all posts
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Monday, March 24, 2014

148th Illinois Infantry

Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in February 21, 1865. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 22-25, thence to Tullahoma, Tenn., March 1, Attached to 1st Brigade, Defences Nashville & Chattanooga R. R. to April, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 1st Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, to September, 1865.

SERVICE. – Duty at Tullahoma, Tenn., till June 18, 1865; then distributed 5 Companies at Decherd, 1 Company at McMinnville and 4 Companies guarding Nashville & Chattanooga R. R. from Lombardy to Anderson's Station till September. Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., September 5, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Enlisted men killed and 1 Officer and 70 Enlisted men by disease. Total 73.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1102

Monday, May 14, 2012

Frank Leesman


Private, Co. H, 148th Illinois Infantry
Died May 26, 1865, Tullahoma, Tennessee

Stones River National Cemetery
Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Monday, February 27, 2012

Darius Ide

Private, Co. E, 148th Illinois Infantry
Died March 12, 1865, Tullahoma, Tennessee

Stones River National Cemetery
Murfreesboro, Tennessee