Illinois Monument

Illinois dedicated this monument on June 27, 1914, to the memory of the Illinois soldiers who died on the battlefield of Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia, on June 27th, 1864. On that field, the men of Col. Dan McCook's 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps assaulted the Confederate works on June 27, 1864, losing four hundred and eighty killed and wounded, including two commanders, Col. Dan McCook, mortally wounded, and Col. O.F. Harmon, killed. The brigade reached the Confederate works and, at less than one hundred feet from them, maintained a line for six days and nights without relief, at the end of which time the Confederates evacuated. Units named are the 85th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. C.J. Dilworth; the 86th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Lt. Col. A.L. Fahnestock; the 125th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, commanded by Col. O.F. Harmon; and Battery I, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, commanded by Lt. Col. Alonzo F. Coe.

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