Civil War Veteran
Private, Company D 122nd Infantry enlisted 8/10/1862
From A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. III, Regimental Histories
by Frederick H. Dyer [1908]
122nd REGIMENT INFANTRY.

Organized at Carlinville, Ill., and
mustered in 4 September 1862.
Moved to Columbus, Ky, thence to Trenton, Tenn., October 8-12,1862, and duty there till December 18.
Attached to District of Jackson, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee to December 1862.
4th Brigade, District of Jackson, 16th Army Corps, to February 1863
2nd Brigade, District of Corinth, 16th Army Corps, to March 1863
2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps to December 1863
District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to June 1864
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps to November 1864
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to December 1864
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Detachment Army of the Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland to February, 1865
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 16th Army Corps (New), Military Division West Mississippi, to July, 1865.
SERVICE.-

Right Wing of Regiment moved from Trenton, Tenn. to Humboldt, Tenn., November 12, 1862 to hold Mobile & Ohio R.R. from Trenton to Jackson.
Regiment moved to Jackson, Tenn., December 18, 1862.
Operations against Forest in West Tennessee December 18, 1862 - January 3, 1863
Action at Salem Cemetery, near Jackson December 19
Parker's Cross Roads December 30
Battle at Red Mound (or Parker's Cross Roads) December 31, 1862
At Trenton, Tenn. till February 17
Moved to Corinth, Miss. February 17 and
duty there till June 24
Expedition to Northern Alabama, April 15 - May 8
Rock Creek, near Tuscumbia, April 22
Tuscumbia, April 23
Town Creek, April 28
Guard Memphis & Charleston R.R. from Middletown to Grand Junction, with Headquarters at Salisbury, Tennessee, June 25-October 31, 1863
Moved to Iuka, Miss. October 31 - November 1,
thence to Eastport, Miss. November 5 and
duty there till December 8
Moved to Paducah, Ky. December 8 and
duty there till January 18, 1864
Moved to Cairo, Ill. January 18,and
duty there till June
Operations against Forest in West Tennessee and Kentucky March 16- April 14,1864
Repulse of Forrest's attack on Paducah, Ky. March 25 (Co's C,H,and K)
Moved to LaGrange, Tenn. June 26-July 3, 1864
Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, Miss and return to Memphis Tenn. July 5-21, 1864
Battle of Harrisburg near Tupelo: July 14-15
Old Town Creek July 15
Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1 - 30
Moved to St. Louis, Mo. September 8
Pursuit of Price through Missouri: September to November
Moved to Nashville, Tenn., November 25-December 1
Battles of Nashville: December 15-16
Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28
Moved to Eastport, Miss. and
duty there till February 1865
Movement to New Orleans, LA, February 9-21
thence to Dauphin Island, Ala., March 6
Campaign against Mobile and its defences, March 22-April 12
Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8
Assault and capture of Fort Blakely, April 9
March to Montgomery April 13 - 26 and
duty there till June 5.
Moved to Mobile June 5 and duty there till July 15.
Mustered out at Mobile July 15.
discharged at Springfield, Ill. August 4, 1865.
Regiment lost during service

2 Officers and 38 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
121 Enlisted men by disease.
Total, 161.