[1] On August 7, 1862, in response to President Abraham Lincoln's call for troops to fight in the American Civil War, a muster roll was begun in the office of Judge John H. Howe in Kewanee, in Henry County, Illinois.

Company B was recruited in Batavia and Lodi, in Kane county.

Company D was raised from Colchester and Tennessee townships in the Illinois county of McDonough.

It was consolidated with a band of Good Templars from Chicago and Dundee, Illinois.

Upon reaching the front at Jackson, Tennessee, it became part of Grant's operations which culminated in the Siege of Vicksburg.