User:Cordelia Brink Brown/124th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

On August 7th, 1862, in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for troops to fight in the United States of America's Civil War, a muster roll was begun in the office of Judge John H Howe in Kewanee, in Henry county, Illinois. Company A and Company F were from the village of Kewanee.

Company B was recruited in Batavia and Lodi, in Lane county.

Company C, known as the Springfield Company, was raised in Springfield, Illinois and in Jersey county.

Company D was raised from Colchester and Tennessee townships in the Illinois county of McDonough. It was consolidated with a band of Good Templars from Chicago and Dundee, Illinois.

(From pages 1 - 5 of "History of the 124th Regiment Illinois Infantry Volunteers, Otherwise Known as the "Hundred and Two Dozen," from August 1862 to August 1865," by R L Howard, Chaplain. Springfield, Illinois; printed and bound by H W Rokker.  1880.