118th Illinois Infantry Regiment

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ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY:

• Organized at Camp Butler, Ill., August to October 1862.
• Mustered in November 7, 1862.
• Duty at Camp Butler and guarding prisoners till December.
• Left State for Memphis, TN, December 1, 1862.
• Attached to 1st Brigade, 9th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Army of the Tennessee, December 1862.
• 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 9th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to July 1863.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to August, 1863, and Dept. of the Gulf to September, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf, to November 1863.
• 2nd Brigade. Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf, to July 1864.
• 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf, to September 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf, to February 1865.
• Cavalry Brigade, District of Baton Rouge, Dept. of the Gulf, to July 1865.
• Dept. of Texas to October 1865.

SERVICE:

• Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 2, 1863.
  • Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28, 1862.
  • Chickasaw Bluffs December 29.
  • Yazoo River January 2, 1863.
• Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10.
• Assault and capture of Fort Hindman January 10-11.
• Moved to Young's Point, LA, January 17-23, and duty there till March 9.
• Moved to Milliken's Bend, LA, March 9.
• Operations from Milliken's Bend to New Carthage March 31-April 17.
• Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30.
• Thompson's Hill, Port Gibson, May 1.
• Champion's Hill May 16.
• Big Black River May 17.
• Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 18-July 4.
  • Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22.
  • At Black River Bridge May 24-July 6.
  • Regiment mounted June 10.
  • Edwards' Ferry July 1 (Detachment).
• Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 6-10.
  • Near Clinton July 8 (Detachment).
  • Near Jackson July 9.
• Siege of Jackson July 10-17.
• Raid to Brookhaven July 17-20.
  • Brookhaven July 18.
• At Vicksburg July 25-August 8.
• Port Hudson August 8-9.
• Carrollton, LA August 15-16.
• Bayou Boeuf September 5-7.
• Brashear City September 16.
• Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 30.
  • Regiment mounted October 11, 1863.
  • Vermillionville October 15.
  • Carrion Crow Bayou October 16-20.
  • Grand Coteau October 19.
  • Reconnaissance toward Opelousas October 20.
  • Barrie's Landing, Opelousas, October 21.
  • Scouting and skirmishing about Opelousas October 22-30.
  • Washington October 24.
  • Bayou Bourbeaux November 2.
  • Carrion Crow Bayou November 3.
  • Bayou Sara November 9.
  • Near Vermillionville November 11.
• New Iberia November 15-December 18.
  • Camp Pratt November 20.
  • Scout to Vermillion Bayou November 22-23.
  • Scout to St. Martinsville December 2-3.
• Donaldsonville December 18-23
• Port Hudson January 3-7, and duty there till July 3, 1864.
  • On scout January 12.
  • Capture of Jackson, Miss., February 10.
  • Skirmish February 16.
  • Raid to Bayou Sara and skirmish February 22.
  • Raid to Jackson March 3.
  • Skirmishes March 26-28, April 1 and 5, May 15, June 13 and 17.
  • Bayou Grosse Tete March 30 and April 2.
  • Plains Store April 7.
  • Redwood Bayou May 3.
• Moved to Baton Rouge July 3.
• Operations about Baton Rouge July 3-25.
  • Expedition to Davidson's Ford, near Clinton, July 17-18.
• Olive Branch August 5.
• Lee's Expedition to Clinton August 23-29.
• Comite River and Clinton August 25.
• Hodge's Plantation September 11.
• Expedition to Amite River, New River and Bayou Manchac October 2-8.
• Expedition to Clinton, Greensburg, etc., October 5-9.
• Lee's Expedition to Brookhaven, Miss., November 14-21.
  • Liberty November 18.
• Davidson's Expedition to West Pascagoula against Mobile & Ohio R. R. November 27-December 13.
• Outpost duty at Baton Rouge till May 22, 1865.
  • Expedition west of Mississippi River February 2-3.
  • Expedition to Olive Branch, LA March 1-10.
• Provost duty at Baton Rouge till October.
  • Expedition to Clinton and Comite River March 30-April 2.
• Mustered out October 1.
• Moved to Camp Butler, IL, October 2-10.
• Discharged October 13, 1865.

118th Illinois Infantry Regimental Summary:

The Regiment, during it's existence, lost during service:

3 Officers and 21 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded
1 Officer and 182 Enlisted men by disease.
TOTAL 207.

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