Showing posts with label 156th IL INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 156th IL INF. Show all posts

Thursday, March 27, 2014

156th Illinois Infantry

Organized February 16, 1865. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Department of the Cumberland.

SERVICE. – Engaged in guarding R. R. and Post duty in Department of the Cumberland till September. Mustered out September 20, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Enlisted men killed and 24 Enlisted men by disease. Total 26.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1103