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107th Illinois Infantry
“Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue!
Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue!
Our Country’s at stake, and ‘tis time to awake
And show to the world what we’ll do.
Awake to your Country’s call!
‘Tis time for the Boys to be true.” The One Hundred and Seventh Regiment Illinois Infantry was mustered in at Camp Butler, near Springfield, Illinois on September 4, 1862. The men of Company A volunteered from Waynesville and Wapella townships of De Witt County, Company B from Clinton in De Witt County, Company C from Monticello and Centerville in Piatt County, Company D from Clinton in De Witt County, Company E from Monticello Township in Piatt County, Company F from De Witt Township in De Witt County, Company G from Marion in Williamson County, Company H from Bement and Monticello Townships in Piatt County, Company I from Santa Anna Township in De Witt County and Company K from Piatt and Sangamon Counties. September 30 the Regiment left Camp Butler for Jeffersonville, Indiana where it remained in camp for drill instruction until mid October; on October 12 the Regiment crossed the Ohio River to Louisville, Kentucky. October 18 the Regiment was ordered to Elizabethtown, Kentucky to meet the advance of General John Morgan who was advancing into that area. Following a skirmish with Morgan’s men the One Hundred and Seventh moved south to Mumfordsville, Kentucky, remained there until March 1863 and then moved further south to Glasgow, Kentucky. On June 18, 1863 the One Hundred and Seventh, as part of the Twenty-third Corps, marched for Tompkinsville, Kentucky on the Cumberland River to meet General Morgan’s anticipated invasion of Kentucky. However, in July, Morgan crossed the Ohio River and raided through southern Indiana and Ohio. Union troops, including he One Hundred and Seventh defeated his forces near Buffington Island on the Ohio River and captured Morgan at Salineville, Ohio one week later. The Regiment returned to Lebanon, Kentucky in late August; they then marched in Burnside’s campaign in East Tennessee. This included a march and countermarch from Loudon to Greenville, Tennessee, sixty miles east of Knoxville followed by a march to Sweetwater, Tennessee where they learned that the Battle of Chickamauga had been fought earlier that month. In the Knoxville Campaign the Regiment saw action at Huff’s Ferry on the Holston River, Campbell’s Station on the Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, and the siege of Knoxville. The One Hundred and Seventh was with the Union forces that pursued Longstreet after his retreat from Knoxville and engaged the rebel forces at Danbridge, Tennessee, 20 miles east of Knoxville on December 21. The Regiment returned to Knoxville where they remained until April 1864 when they joined Sherman’s Army in the Atlanta Campaign. Between May and September the One Hundred and Seventh was engaged at Dalton, Rocky Faced Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope Church, Allatoona Hills, Kenesaw Mountain, Lost Mountain, Muddy Creek, Noyes’ Creek, Kolb’s Farm, Nickajack Creek, Chattahoochie River, the Siege of Atlanta and Lovejoy Station. Following the fall of Atlanta the Regiment pursued Hood into north Georgia and Alabama in October and early November. On November 18, 1864 the Regiment to moved to Colombia, Tennessee and met the advance of Hood’s army on November 22. The two armies skirmished until November 28 finally resulting in the Battle of Franklin on November 30. In that Battle the commander of the Regiment, Colonel Francis Lowry, was killed; the Regiment captured two stands of enemy’s colors, and had its own colors captured but Pvt. Baley Walker of Company G recovered these. The Regiment arrived at Nashville on December 1 and went into position near Fort Negley on picket duty; December 15 the Regiment broke camp and charged the enemy’s lines. The rebel forces were routed and the following morning the One Hundred and Seventh pursued the fleeing enemy toward Franklin. The Regiment arrived at Columbia, Tennessee on December 20 and in January 1865 departed for Clinton, Tennessee. January 26 the Regiment was ordered to Washington D.C. and arrived there on February 2; February 9 the Regiment moved to Alexandria, Virginia and on February 11 sailed by streamer to Fort Fisher, North Carolina on the Cape Fear River Inlet. On February 18 the Regiment moved on Fort Anderson, drove in the skirmishers and held a siege position during the following day. On February 20 the Regiment attacked the Fort at daylight but found it evacuated. The Regiment captured the Fort's colors and pursued the retreating enemy to Wilmington. After a two week occupation of the city the Regiment was ordered to Goldsboro and then to Raleigh, North Carolina. Following the surrender of Johnston’s Army at Bennett’s House on April 26 the One Hundred and Seventh remained on duty at Salisbury, North Carolina where it was mustered out on June 21, 1865. ,
The Clinton Public, June 4, 1863. O.R. Series 1—Volume SLV/1 [S#93] pp378-83. Although the records confirm that two stands of the enemy’s colors were captured, the Confederate units are not identified. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, H. W. Rokker, State Printer and Binder, Springfield, IL (1886), pp 47-9 Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher, New York, (1959), Part III, p 1092
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107th; Illinois Infantry Regimental Flag
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Summary:
This Regimental flag is inscribed on the lower scroll: 107 REGT. ILLS VOLS. No battle honors are inscribed on the flag. There is no National color for the 107th in the Hall of Flags.
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