127th Ill. Vol. Inft.

127th Ill. Vol. Inft.

       From the Report of the State of Illinois, Revised in 1900 by Brig. Gen. J. N. Reece

HISTORY OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH INFANTRY

       The One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Infantry was raised under the call of President Lincoln for 500,000 volunteers in the summer of 1862.   Company A was recruited in Kendall county; Company B, in and around Chicago; Company C, at Elgin; Company D, in Grundy county; Company E. at St. Charles; Company F. at Plano; Company G, in Chicago; Company H about Lyons; Company I, at Elgin and Company K, at Aurora and Big Rock.   The Regiment was mustered in this service at Camp Douglas, Sept. 6, 1862.
       The Regiment performed a considerable amount of guard duty in Camp Douglas, where the Harper's Ferry prisoners were sent in the fall of 1862.