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Show ~'' I :;! ' A.G. 314.73 123d Ill inois Infantry (6-2-- 26) ORD .............. ,. +;.;' ••. _, Ststement concerning the history of the l23rd Regiment Illinois Infentry Volunteers, Civil ~;er. · The One Hundred Twenty Third Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers wes organized at :\1ettoon, Illinois, in September, 1S6~, end was mustered into service et I.: ~;ttoon, September 6, 1862. Colonel James t~ cnroe, of T.:ettoon, was :the first commander, and after his deeth in the battle et Ferminrtcn, Tenn., October 7, 186.3, it wee · commanded by Lieut. Col. Jonathan Bier-s, also of Mattoon, The regiment left Mattoon for Louisville, Kentucky, September 19·, 1862; assisted for e short time in the fortifying of that ci t v, end on October 1 proceeded furt'ler soun in Kentucky to join General Buell's army, in which it "as assigned to t ~ e 23d Bri gade under Brig. General ~. H. Terrill, and participated in the battle of Perryville, Kentucl-.y, October 8, 1862, "hen General Terrill wes killed· end t he r egi ment lost about 36 members in kil l ed end wounded. October 12 it moved through . Danville, ~: y., to the r entucky River end thence beck through ·Danville to Lebanon end :.:unfordsv i lle; in Kovember vie Glasgow to Csstilien Springs; December 26, stsrted i n pursuit . of General John Morgan towards Glasgow and Bear Hollow. The regiment abandoned the ·pursuit of ;,:organ · January 2, 186.3, and marched i n succession to Ceve City, Bowling Green, Nashville end Murfreesboro, reeching the lest-me ntioned pll'(:e, in Tennessee, Jenusry 10; 1863, after the operations incident to t he recent battle of Stone's River were about over, but partici pating in sccuting . and scr.:e mbor conflicts with the enemy in that region in January, February and L'.arch, notably an acticn March 20 at Vaught's Hill, near Milton, ,..here the Confederate G e ~. e ral 1~crgan .,.as driven from the field. !i.ey 6, 186.3, the regiment was assigned to Wilder's Brigade, Re:molds' Divis' on of the lL.th Corps, end wes mounted and er~ed orith Spencer rifles,' breech loa din;· seven shooters, and for e month or two was on scouting duty. This mounted br! fede rr.oved out of r urfreesboro with General Rosecrans 1 army June 24, tsl:inr the sdva ~ ce enci occupying Hoover's Gap, Tenn., under fire; from June 26 to August 16 w~s enrRged in raiding in the rear of Bragg's army in sout~ Central Tennessee; Au ~s t 16 moved over the mountains intc Sequatchie Valley, Tenn., end do~ that valley to the Tennessee River, thence to Chattanooga, thence into north Georgia parti cipatbg with the 14th Corps in the battle of Chickamauga September 18-20, 186.3; October the lst the regiment started under V~jor General A. ~eD. YcCook, commending .the corps to intercept ""heeler in his raid towards Nashville and was engaged in an action at Farmington in middle Tenneseee, October 7, 1863, in which Colonel Jionroe •ee killed, and when Lieut. Col. Biggs assumed command of the regiment; . operated in am~ them Tennessee and northe:rn .Uabema fro)ll October, 186.3 to 'Ma1, 1861., and earl,. in J.:ay, 1864, set out with Ger.eral Sh!'!nnan's army in the advance aouthward toorards i.tlante; Ge,J took pert in the operations in north Georgia, or the .Atlanta ea~~p&ign, t.herea!'ter ir. the 8UBII8r and fall of 1864, and assisted in the purauit cf Hood eastward and northward after. the oe~pation or Atlanta, September 2, 1861.. ) · ·", ::~1~; ~:~"~~"~:":!";'1"'~,--:;:!,!.-·,i":-"':.,,.-. .-:,~-, ==:::_-------~- ...,,--:--r.-T":Tl;-;'"'"""!""-_:- _ =--~--,,~,,,-.,-~·Tl:":~".;,_,....,-~-::-'<'CTT:' ~~:;r,-, .. ,...,- """".,.,.,~~.,.. ---~-·: --. - .-. ~~. .' . · .. :.< . ;i·i· •; fi··· ·.:., ·· jr: .:;:• :•: ·.: •.. ! :-· . : ; ! , . • . . ·.;·>.;i!·:.·..: •,< j: ... ·< . ' ·' . t, ••· .~ : · ' !; .· .• .· . ·;· t ';!:t: ' ,, 1, ' ': !'1 |
