132nd Illinois Infantry Regiment

132nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry 1 June–17 October 1864 United States 1864 23px Union Infantry Regiment Paducah, Kentucky *Western Theater of the American Civil War Expedition to Haddix's Ferry Action at Haddix's Ferry Colonel Thomas J. PickettIllinois U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments 1861-1865 131st Illinois Infantry Regiment 133rd Illinois Infantry Regiment The 132nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days and served its term of enlistment as a garrison unit in Paducah, Kentucky. History The 132nd Illinois was organized at Camp Fry in Chicago and mustered in for 100 days on 1 June 1864, under the command of Colonel Thomas J. Pickett.Adjutant General of the State of Illinois 1886 21 Company A was composed of men from LaSalle and Cook counties, Company B of men from Cook and Fulton counties, Company C of men from Kane and Kendall counties, Company D of men from Fulton and Peoria Counties, Company E of men from Fulton County, Company F of men from Dekalb County, Company G of men from Cook, Henry, and Knox counties, Company H of men from Rock Island County, Company I of men from Cook County, and Company K of men from Cook, Dekalb, and Winnebago counties.Adjutant General of the State of Illinois 1886 5–20 The regiment departed for Columbus, Kentucky, on 6 June, arriving there two days later. It was attached to the District of Columbus, Kentucky, part of the 6th Division, XVI Corps, Department of the Tennessee.Dyer 1908 1101 The regiment relocated to Paducah on 15 June, where it spent the rest of its service on garrison duty.Adjutant General of the State of Illinois 1886 21 After pro-Confederate guerrillas were reported to have fired shots at boats on the Tennessee River and harassed Unionists, an expedition of 200 men from the 132nd Illinois and 400 men from the 8th Regiment Heavy Artillery U.S. Colored Troops under the command of 132nd Illinois Major John H. Peck was sent to Haddix's Ferry below Aurora on 25 July. After landing there two days later, the expedition pursued a group of guerrillas inland and routed them, killing five, wounding several, and capturing seven.Ullrich Craig 2018 34United States War Department 1892 365–366 From August to October the regiment was assigned to the District of Columbus as part of the Department of the Ohio. After the conclusion of 100 days the 132nd Illinois returned to Chicago, where it was mustered out on 17 October.Adjutant General of the State of Illinois 1886 21 During its service, it lost twelve men to disease, its only casualties.Dyer 1908 1101 See also List of Illinois Civil War units References Citations Bibliography https://books.google.com/books?id=-kZJAAAAYAAJ Report of the Adjutant General of Illinois Adjutant General of the State of Illinois H.W. Rokker Revised by J.W. Vance 1886 VII: Reports from 1861–1866 Springfield Dyer Frederick H https://archive.org/details/08697590.3359.emory.edu A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Des Moines, IA Dyer Pub. Co. 1908 https://books.google.com/books?id=zx9JDwAAQBAJ&q=132nd General E. A. Paine in Western Kentucky: Assessing the "reign of Terror" of the Summer of 1864 Ullrich Dieter C. Craig Berry McFarland 2018 9781476671437 Jefferson, North Carolina https://books.google.com/books?id=ecFZAAAAYAAJ&q=peck+ferry+illinois+1864&pg=PA365 The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies United States War Department Government Printing Office 1892 Series I, Volume XXXIX, Chapter LI Washington, D.C. External links Rosters of the 132nd Illinois Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois Category:Military units and formations established in 1864 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1864