109th ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Dyer's Regimental History

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

Note: HTML format added to aid digestion.--if you remove the format you have Dyer's original text [He didn't use complete sentences].

109th ILLINOIS INFANTRY.

• Organized at Camp Anna, Ills., and
• mustered in September 11, 1862.

• Moved to Columbus, Ky., October 20-25,1862.
• thence to Bolivar, Tenn.

• Attached to District of Jackson, Tenn., 13th Army Corps (Old), Department of the Tennessee, to December, 1862.
• District of Jackson, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863.
• District of Memphis, Tenn., 16th Army Corps, to April, 1863.

SERVICE.-

• Grant's Central Mississippi Campaign November 1862, to January, 1863.
• At Memphis till March, 1863.
• Moved to Lake Providence, La.
• Regiment disbanded April 10, 1863,
  • having lost 237 by desertion and
  • officers (excepting those of Company "K") having proved themselves utterly incompetent.
  • Company "K" transferred to 11th Illinois Infantry.

Regiment lost by disease

• 2 Officers and 92 Enlisted men during its service

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