100th REGIMENT INFANTRY
Dyer's Regimental History

from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. III, Regimental Histories
by Frederick H. Dyer [1908]

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100th REGIMENT INFANTRY.

• Organized at Joliet, Ill., and mustered in August 30 1862.
• Left state for Louisville, Ky., September 2 1862.

• Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1862.
• 16th Brigade, 6th Division 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Divislon Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland to January, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1865.

• Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-18.
  • Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8 (Reserve).
  • Nelson's Cross Roads October 18.
• March to Nash ville, Tenn., October 18-November 26, and duty there till December 26.
• Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30.
  • Lavergne December 26-27.
  • Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863.
• At Murfreesboro till June.
• Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 24-July 7
• Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16.
• Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.
  • Expedition from Tracy City to Tennessee River August 22-24.
  • Near Lee and Gordon's Mills September 17-18.
  • Battle of Chickamauga, Ga, September 19-20.
• Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn. September 24-November 23.
• Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27.
  • Battles of Orchard Knob November 23-24,
  • Mission Ridge November 25.
• March to relief of Knoxville and operations In East Tennessee December. 28-February 1, 1864.
• At Athens, Tenn., February to April.
• Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8.
  • Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge May 8-11.
  • Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9.
  • Demonstrations on Dalton May 9-13.
  • Battle of Resaca May 14-16.
  • Adairsville May 17.
  • Near Kingston May 18-19.
  • Near Cassville May 19.
  • Advance on Dallas May 22-25.
  • Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
  • Pine Mountain June 11-14.
  • Lost Mountain June 16-17.
  • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
  • Ruff's Station, Smyrna Camp Ground, July 4.
  • Chattahoochie River July 6-17.
  • Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18.
  • Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
  • Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 26.
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 26-30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
• Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama September 28-November 3.
• Nashville (Tenn.) Campaign November-December.
  • Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27.
  • Spring Hill November 29,
  • Battle of Franklin November 30.
  • Battle of Nashville December 15-16.
  • Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
• Moved to Huntsville, Ala,, and duty there till March, 1865.
• Expedition to Bull's Gap and operations in East Tennessee March 20-April 22.
• Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there till June.
• Mustered out at Nashville, Tenn., June 12, and
• discharged at Chicago, III., June 16, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• 7 Officers and 73 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
• 134 Enlisted men by disease.
• Total 214.

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