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Flags of the 125th Illinois Infantry

Below is a short history of the 125th Illinois Infantry.

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Jim Martin

Regimental History
ILLINOIS
125TH INFANTRY
(Three Years)

One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Infantry.-Col., Oscar F.
Harmon; Lieut.-Col., James W. Langley; Maj., John B. Lee.
This regiment was formed of good war material mainly drawn
from the rural precincts of Vermillion and Champaign counties
with a sprinkling of mechanics, professional and laboring men
and clerks from the towns, practically all of whom could read
and write, so that the war and its possible requirements were
well comprehended by them before enlistment. A brief
rendezvous at Danville, the muster-in Sept. 3, 1862, the
equipment, the sad farewells, and the command moved to
Cincinnati, thence across the Ohio to the heights above
Covington on the "neutral" ground of Kentucky, where it
relieved a provisional regiment of "squirrel hunters."
Excepting a slight taste of war at the battle of Perryville,
the regiment was not actually engaged in conflict until at the
battle of Chickamauga, where it was under fire all of the
afternoon on the second day, and also the following day at
Rossville gap. Crossing the Tennessee on Sherman's pontoons,
the regiment engaged in the battle of Missionsary ridge. At
the battle of Kennesaw mountain its loss was 120 killed and
wounded in the short space of 20 minutes, nearly half of whom,
including 5 officers, were killed outright, and 4 officers
were wounded. On July 18, the regiment crossed the
Chattahoochee on pontoon at Pace's ferry, advanced with strong
skirmishing to Peachtree creek, where in a spirited charge at
dusk it drove the enemy from a commanding height, and from
this point on through the siege of Atlanta until the signal
victory at Jonesboro, the regiment was practically under fire
every hour, at the latter place being the center and guide
regiment in the assault. The regiment marched with Sherman to
the sea, and up through the Carolinas. In North Carolina its
progress was checked at Averasboro and stubbornly resisted at
Bentonville. The fighting at the latter place was very
severe, a full share of which fell on the regiment, when it
not only well sustained its past reputation for courage, but
justly added new laurels to its victorious crown. A peaceful
"on to Richmond" from the south, then to Washington, the grand
review, and the muster out on June 9, 1865, were the closing
scenes in the regiment's part of the great military drama.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 3

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