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Thomas J. Kent (First_Last) Regiment Name 98 Illinois Infantry SideUnion Company B Soldier's Rank_In Pvt. Soldier's Rank_Out Pvt.Alternate Name Notes Film Number M539 roll 48
UNION ILLINOIS VOLUNTEERS
98th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
Organized at Centralia, Ill., and mustered in September 3, 1862. Movedto Louisville, Ky., September 8, 1862, thence to JeffersonvilleSeptember 9, and to Shepherdsville September 19. Attached to 40thBrigade, 12th Division, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 2ndBrigade, 5th Division, Centre 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland,to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, 14th Army Corps, Army ofthe Cumberland, to June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 14th ArmyCorps, to October, 1863. Wilder's Mounted Infantry Brigade, Army ofthe Cumberland, to November, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, CavalryCorps, Army of the Cumberland, November, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2ndDivision, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to December, 1863.3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, toNovember, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, MilitaryDivision Mississippi, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.-Moved to Elizabethtown, Ky., thence to Frankfort andVersailles September 30-October 13, 1862. March to Bowling Green, Ky.,October 26-November 3, thence to Scottsboro November 10. To GallatinNovember 26, and to Castillian Springs November 28. To Bledsoe CreekDecember 14. Operations against Morgan in Kentucky December 22-January2, 1863. Moved to Cave City, thence to Murfreesboro, Tenn., January2-8, and duty there till June. Expedition to Auburn, Liberty andAlexandria February 3-5. Regiment mounted March 8. Expedition toWoodbury March 3-8. Expedition to Lebanon, Carthage and Liberty April1-8. Expedition to McMinnville April 20-30. Reconnoissance to thefront May 23. Armed with Spencer Carbines May 31. Liberty Road June 4.Liberty June 10. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 24-July7. Hoover's Gap June 24-26. Occupation of Manchester June 27. DechardJune 29. Pelham and Elk River Bridge July 2. Occupation of MiddleTennessee till August 16. Passage of the Cumberland Mountains andTennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22.Friar's Island September 9. Leo and Gordon's Mills September 11-13.Ringgold September 11. Leet's Tan Yard September 12-13. Pea Vine RidgeSeptember 18. Alexander's Bridge September 18. Battle of ChickamaugaSeptember 19-21. Operations against Wheeler and Roddy September30-October 17. Hill's Gap, Thompson's Cove, near Beersheba October 3.Murfreesboro Road near McMinnville and McMinnville October 4.Farmington October 7. Sims' Farm near Shelbyville October 7.Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Raid on East Tennesseeand Georgia R. R. November 24-27. Charleston November 26. ClevelandNovember 27. March to relief of Knoxville and operations in EastTennessee November 28, 1863, to January 6, 1864. Near Loudon December2, 1863. Expedition to Murphey, N. C., December 6-11. Operations inNorth Alabama January 23-29, 1864. Florence January 25. Demonstrationon Dalton, Ga., February 22-27. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap andRocky Faced Ridge February 23-25. Near Dalton February 23. Atlanta(Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Battle of Resaca May 13-15. Rome May17-18. Near Dallas May 24. Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creekand battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May25-June 5. Near Big Shanty June 9. Operations about Marietta andagainst Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Noonday Creek June 19-20.Powder Springs, Lattimer's Mills, June 20. Noonday Creek and assaulton Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Rottenwood Creek July 4.Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Garrard's Raid to Covington July 22-24.Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Garrard's Raid to South River July27-31. Flat Rock Bridge July 28. Kilpatrick's Raid around AtlantaAugust 20-22. Operations at Chattahoochie River Bridge August26-September 2. Operations against Hood in North Georgia and NorthAlabama September 29-November 3. Near Lost Mountain October 4-7. NewHope Church October 5. Dallas October 7. Rome October 10-11. NarrowsOctober 11. Near Rome October 13. Near Summerville October 18, LittleRiver, Ala., October 20. Leesburg October 21. Ladiga, Terrapin Creek,October 28. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., thence to Louisville, Ky.,November 2-15, and duty there refitting till December 26. March toNashville, Tenn., December 26, 1864, to January 12, 1865, thence toGravelly Springs, Ala., and duty there till March 13. Wilson's Raid toMacon, Ga., March 22-April 24. Summerville April 2. Selma April 2.Montgomery April 12. Columbus, Ga., April 16. Macon April 20. Provostduty at Macon till May 23, Moved to Edgefield and duty there tillJune, 1865. Mustered out June 27 and discharged at Springfield, Ill.,July 7, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 30 Enlisted men killed and mortallywounded and 5 Officers and 136 Enlisted men by disease. Total 171.
Note: Thomas Kent was in the same regiment, the 98th IllinoisInfantry, in Illinois as his brother Alonzo who died during the warapparently. After the war, he moved to Johnson City, Tennessee.
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