Company H 27th Illinois Infantry
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N 37° 45.854 W 089° 20.076
16S E 294359 N 4182223
Marker commemorating the raising of a local Infantry unit during the Civil War.
Waymark Code: WMM1ZR
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 07/05/2014
Views: 1
In July 1861, J.D. Wheatley of DuQuoin wrote Illinois Governor Richard Yates that a Confederate company was drilling in Murphysboro. A Union officer sent to investigate discovered a group of men in uniforms made of red and white bed ticking drilling on the court house square with broomstick muskets and an American flag. This company, raised by attorney McHenry Brooks, mustered into the Union army on August 28, 1861, at Camp Butler as Company H, 27th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The 27th fought in the battles of Belmont, Island #10, Stones River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and the Atlanta Campaign.
County: Jackson
Historical Society: The "Murphy Group", Friends of Murphysboro, General John A. Logan Museum and the Illinois State Historical Society
Dedication Date: May 24, 2014
Location: Northeast corner of the Jackson County Court House, Murphysboro, IL
Website: Not listed
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