100th Illinois Infantry Regiment Marker

Illinois
100th Infantry. Buell’s Brigade. 11 A.M. September 20, 1963

Classification
Allegiance: Union
Type: Tablet (plaque)
Level: Regiment
Military Arm: Infantry

This monument is Not visible from the road. It is located at N 34° 55.0662  W 85° 15.7494. Map it



To reach this monument:
This monument is in a wooded area on the west side of the split rail fence that enclosed the Brotherton Field. The monument can be access from a path that runs along the west side of the fence.

There are 15 monuments nearby.

Buell’s Brigade Plaque (MT-560) (here, next to this marker) ; Wood’s Division Tablet (MT-536) (Is only 27 feet away) ; Negley’s Division Tablet (MT-511) (Is only 50 feet away) ; 6th Battery Ohio Light Artillery Plaque (MT-935) (about 258 feet away) ; Confederate Breakthrough (about 411 feet away) ; Brotherton House (MT-423H) (about 504 feet away) ; War Comes to the Brothertons (about 510 feet away) ; Left Wing - Army of Tennessee Tablet (MT-429) (about 519 feet away) ; Culpeper’s South Carolina Battery Tablet (MT-1345A) (about 520 feet away) ; Buckner's Headquarters Shell Monument (MT-445) (about 579 feet away) ; Buckner's Corps Tablet (MT-441) (about 591 feet away) ; 82nd Indiana Infantry Regiment Marker (MT-841) (approx. 0.1 miles away) ; Mc Nair’s Brigade Plaque (MT-1194) (approx. 0.1 miles away) ; Bate's Brigade Tablet (MT-1129) (approx. 0.1 miles away) ; Robertson’s Brigade Plaque (MT-1209) (approx. 0.2 miles away) . Map all of the Monuments on the battlefield.

At the edge of the woods near an open field.

This monument is recorded in the National Park Service database as structure MT-718.

This monument was built in 1899. It is a 2'6" x 1'2" x 2'6" high rectangular slab of dark Quincy granite. Rock-faced sides; polished & inscribed front. "Illinois" is in large raised letters on beveled top. Marks unit's position at 11:00 a.m. on Sept. 20, 1863.

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