Showing posts with label 149th IL INF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 149th IL INF. Show all posts

Monday, March 24, 2014

149th Illinois Infantry

Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and mustered in for 1 year February 11, 1865. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-17, 1865; thence to Chattanooga, Tenn. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Separate Division, District of the Etowah, Dept. of the Cumberland, to July, 1865. Dept. of Georgia to January, 1866.

SERVICE. – Provost Guard duty at Chattanooga, Tenn., and guarding R. R. till May 2. Moved to Dalton, Ga., May 2; thence to Atlanta, Ga., July 6. Guard duty in 4th Sub-District, District of Allatoona, till January, 1866. Mustered out January 27, 1866.

Regiment lost during service by disease 31.

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