153rd REGIMENT 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].

153rd REGIMENT INFANTRY.

• Organized at Camp Fry, Chicago, Ill., and
• mustered for 1 year February 27, 1865.

• Moved to Nashville, Tenn.;
• thence to Tullahoma, Tenn., March 4-10.
• Attached to 2nd Brigade, Defences of Nashville & Chattanooga R. R., Dept. of the Cumberland, to April, 1865.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Sub-District, District of Middle Tennessee, to July, 1865.
• 1st Infantry Brigade, District of West Tennessee, to September, 1865.

• Assigned to guard duty on Nashville & Chattanooga R. R. till July, 1865.
• Moved to Memphis, Tenn., July 1, and
• duty there till September.
• Mustered out September 15, 1865, and
• discharged Sepember 24, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• by disease 37.

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