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- John Burky, private, Tremont
Enlisted June 1, 1864, mustered out Oct. 28, 1864
Company C, 139th Illinois Infantry
(Tazewell and Woodford Counties)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/r155/139-c-in.htm
(Identical information found on list of veterans living in Seward County, Nebraska in 1891.)
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/dyers/139inf.htm
Organized at Peoria, Ill., and mustered in for 100 days June 1, 1864. Moved to St. Louis, Mo., June 8-10; thence to Columbus, Ky. Moved to Cairo, Ill., June 20; and on Garrison duty there till September. Attached to District of Columbus, Ky., Dept. of the Tennessee, to August, and Dept. of the Ohio to September. Moved to Peoria September 25-28. Volunteered for service during Price's Invasion of Missouri and moved to St. Louis. March into Missouri toward Franklin in pursuit of Price, October.
Mustered out October 25, 1864.
Lost by disease during service 16.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/history/139.htm (Garrison Duty in Cairo, Ill., and in Kentucky and Missouri)
139th Illinois Infantry
Regiment History
Adjutant General's Report
The One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Infantry was mustered into theUnited States service as a one hundred-day Regiment, at Peoria, on the 1st day of June, 1864, and on the 8th of June, it moved for St. Louis by steamboat, arriving there on the 10th; thence it moved to Columbus, Ky., where it remained about a week, when it was moved to Cairo as a garrison for that place. Here the Regiment remained until August with but little to disturb the monotony of camp life.
About the 1st of August, a guerrilla party had captured some steamboats a short distance above Paducah, and took from them several hundred cattle and horses. General Payne, who was then commanding the Department of Northern Kentucky, ordered Colonel Davison to take 400 of his men and go and take from the rebel farmers living in the counties adjoining the Ohio River, where the capture was made, as many cattle and horses as had been taken from the boats. Some of the stock was recaptured, and enough others taken as directed to make good the loss. Two or three of the ringleaders of the guerrilla party were also captured. After the return of this expedition the Regiment remained at Cairo doing garrison duty until the 25th of September. It was then moved to Peoria to be mustered out of the service. But the time had not come yet. General Price with a large rebel force was marching towards St. Louis, and there were not enough troops to defend it that could be spared from other places. President Lincoln therefore sent a dispatch to Colonel Davison requesting him to take his Regiment and go at once to St. Louis. The President was aware the Regiment had already served beyond the time for which it was enlisted. As soon as the circumstances were explained to the men they were ready to go. For this prompt response, the President wrote a letter to the men of the Regiment, expressing his thanks and commending them for their patriotism. Going by rail to St. Louis the Regiment marched out in the direction of Going by rail to St. Louis the Regiment marched out in the direction of Franklin to meet General Price. Several other Regiments joining in the march the rebel General soon decided it was to his advantage to move to the southern part of the State. The Union troops followed as fast as possible but failed to catch him. Having driven him to a remote part of the State the Regiment was again moved to Peoria, where it was mustered out of the service on the 25th of October, 1864, having been in the service nearly five month. [5]
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