Showing posts with label 68th IL INF. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

68th Illinois Infantry

Organized at Camp Butler, June 16, 1862, for three months. Moved to Wheeling, W. Va., July 5-7, thence to Washington, D.C., July 9-10. Camp at Soldiers' Retreat and near Alexandria, Va., till August 24. Provost duty at Alexandria, Va., till September 17. Moved to Camp Butler, Ill., September 17-21. Mustered out September 27, 1862. Regiment lost 25 by disease during service.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1076