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A nice CDV of Captain John W. Kendall, Company "H", 124th Illinois Infantry.  Kendall was commisioned captain in September, 1862 and was mustered out August 15, 1865.  The  image has a "Washington Gallery, Odd Fellows' Hall, Vicksburg, Miss." backmark.  It is signed in period ink "Capt. J.W. Kendall - Co. H, 124th Ill. Infty.".

 

One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Infantry.-Col., Thomas J.
Sloan; Lieut.-Cols., John H. Howe, Adin Mann; Majs., Rufus P.
Pattison, Adin Mann.  This regiment was a representative,
self-raised regiment, recruited from Henry, Kane, McDonough,
Sangamon, Jersey, Adams, Wayne, Cook, Putnam, Pike, Mercer and
Christian counties.  On Aug. 27, 1862, the first company went
into camp at Camp Butler, near Springfileld, and six days
later all were in camp and the field officers chosen.  On
Sept. 10, it was mustered into the U.S. service for three
years and on Oct. 6, left for the front, arriving at Jackson,
Tenn., on the 9th.  On May 1, after a rapid march of about 12
miles, it received its baptism of fire in the battle of Port
Gibson.  It bore an important part in the battle of Raymond,
was also at the capture of Jackson, and did noble service at
the battle of Champion's hill, capturing more men from the
43rd Ga. than its own ranks numbered.  It also killed most of
the men and horses of a battery, and captured the guns.  The
loss of the regiment in this action was 63 killed and wounded.
It was in the fearful charge at Vicksburg on May 22, and
occupied the extreme advance position gained that day during
the whole of the siege.  At the mine explosion on June 25, the
regiment lost 49 men in killed and wounded in what was called
the "slaughter pen," being ordered into the crater formed by
the explosion, two companies at a time for half an hour, all
day of the 26th.  After a stay in Vicksburg and vicinity of
nearly two years, it was transferred in the spring of 1865, to
the Department of the Gulf and participated in the siege and
capture of Mobile.  On Aug. 16, 1865, eleven days less than
three years since the first company went into camp at
Springfield, the regiment was mustered out at Camp Douglas.
One officer alone was killed in the service, and he was
sitting in his tent off duty when struck at the siege of
Vicksburg.  Two others resigned from wounds and 2 died. 
Twenty men were killed in action, 29 died from wounds, 5 were
captured when detailed on a scout, 4 of whom did not live to
return and 137 men died of disease.