122nd 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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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.

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