Martin Vanburen Cannedy

Greenfield, Illinois

Oct. 4, 1864

Distinguished Service

Union

Illinois

Unit Numbers: 324

Service Record: Enlisted as Private on Oct. 4, 1864 in Company H, 144th Infantry Regiment Illinois.

144th Inf. Regiment IL.

Date Mustered: July 14, 1865

Infantry

Regimental History Illinois 144th Infantry (One Year)

One hundred and forty-fourth Infantry-Cols. Cyrus Hall

Lieut.-Cols. John H. Kuhn, James M. Morgan

This regiment was organized at Alton Illinois in the autumn of 1864 as a one year regiment. It was mustered into the service on Oct. 21 with a numerical strength of 1,159. In Jan. 1865, four companies were sent to St. Louis, where their term of service was spent, the other six companies remaining on guard duty at Alton. The regiment was mustered out July 14, 1865.

Source: The Union Army, vol.3 Ancestry.com

American Civil War Soldiers Record