Thursday, March 27, 2014

151st Illinois Infantry

Organized at Quincy, Ill., and mustered in for 1 year's service February 23, 1865. Moved to Springfield, Ill.; thence to Nashville, Murfreesboro and Chattanooga, Tenn., and Dalton, Ga., February 23-March 13, 1865. Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. Dept. of Georgia to January, 1866.

SERVICE. – Duty at Dalton, Ga., till May 2, 1865. Moved to Resaca, Calhoun and Kingston, Ga., May 2-12. Surrender of Warford May 13-14-15. At Kingston, Ga., till July 28. Detachments at Adairsville, Rome and Cartersville. Moved to Columbus, Ga., July 28-31, and duty there till January, 1866. Mustered out January 24, 1866. Discharged February 8, 1866.

Regiment lost during service by disease 51.

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

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