108th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment and Michel Brault

Contents 1 Service 2 Detailed service 3 Casualties 4 Commanders 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Service

The 108th Illinois Infantry was organized in Peoria, Illinois mustered in for three years service on August 28, 1862 under the command of Colonel John Warner.

The regiment was attached to the following:

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to November 1862.

2nd Brigade, 10th Division, XIII Corps, Department of the Tennessee, to December 1862.

2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January 1863.

2nd Brigade, 10th Division, XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to May 1863.

Detached Brigade, District of Northeast Louisiana, to August 1863.

1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to November 1863.

Post of Corinth, Mississippi, 2nd Division, XVI Corps, to January 1864.

2nd Brigade, District of Memphis, Tennessee, to June 1864.

2nd Brigade, Sturgis' Expedition, June 1864. 1st Brigade, Memphis, Tennessee, District of West Tennessee, to February 1865.

3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XVI Corps, Military Division of West Mississippi, to August 1865.

The 108th Illinois Infantry mustered out of service on August 5, 1865 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Detailed service

Moved to Nicholasville, Ky., October 17-November 1, 1862.

Marched to Louisville, Ky., November 14-19, 1862.

Moved to Memphis, Tenn., November 21-26, and duty there until December 20.

Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862 to January 2, 1863.

Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28, 1862.

Chickasaw Bluff December 29.

Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863.

Assault and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11.

Moved to Young's Point, La., January 17-24, and duty there until March 10.

At Milliken's Bend, La., until April 25.

Movement on Bruinsburg and turning Grand Gulf April 25-30.

Battles of Port Gibson, Miss., May 1.

Champion Hill May 16.

Detached to guard prisoners from Big Black River to Memphis, Tenn., May 16-30.

At Young's Point, La., during siege of Vicksburg and until July 18.

Moved to Vicksburg July 18.

Memphis, Tenn., July 26-29.

LaGrange, Tenn., August 5. Duty there until October 28.

Pocahontas until November 9.

At Corinth, Miss., until January 25, 1864.

Moved to Memphis, Tenn., and duty there until February 1865.

Sturgis' Expedition to Guntown, Miss., June 1-13, 1864.

Brice's (or Tishamingo) Creek, near Guntown, June 10.

Ripley June 11. Repulse of Forrest's attack on Memphis August 21, 1864.

Moved to New Orleans, La.; then to Dauphin Island, Ala., February 28-March 16.

Operations against Mobile and its defenses March 16-April 12.

Siege of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely March 26-April 8.

Assault and capture of Fort Blakely April 9.

Occupation of Mobile April 12.

March to Montgomery April 13-25.

Duty there until July 18.

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss., July 18-August 5. Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 214 men during service; 1 officer and 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 202 enlisted men died of disease. Commanders Colonel John Warner - dismissed from the service, March 13, 1863 Colonel Charles Turner See also List of Illinois Civil War units Illinois in the Civil War

Michel Brault and 108th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Contents 1 Career and death 2 Honours and distinctions 3 Selected films 3.1 As director 3.1.1 Fiction 3.1.2 Documentaries 3.2 As cinematographer 4 References 5 External links

Career and death

In the 1960s, Brault collaborated with the French Nouvelle Vague, notably with Jean Rouch, and introduced the cinéma vérité techniques in Europe. He directed his first documentary short film for the National Film Board, the influential Les Raquetteurs in 1958. He was also the cinematographer for a number of key Canadian films of the 1970s such as Claude Jutra's Kamouraska and Mon Oncle Antoine and Francis Mankiewicz's Les Bons débarras.

In 1974, Brault directed Les Ordres, about the 1970 October crisis and won the 1975 Cannes Film Festival award for best director and the 1975 Canadian Film Award for best direction. His 1989 film The Paper Wedding was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.

Brault died of a heart attack on the afternoon of 21 September 2013, while en route to the Film North – Huntsville International Film Festival, where he was to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. According to festival founder Lucy Wing, Brault had arrived at Pearson International Airport after a flight from his home in Montreal, accompanied by his son, Sylvain. Brault had begun the drive north to Huntsville by limousine when he began to feel ill, approximately one hour after his arrival in Toronto. Honours and distinctions 1964 - Film of the Year, Canadian Film Awards 1974 - Prix L.-E.-Ouimet-Molson 1975 - Prix Victor-Morin 1975 - Best Director, Canadian Film Awards 1975 - Best Director Award (Cannes Film Festival) 1980 - Molson Prize 1981 and 1983 Genie Award for Best Achievement in Cinematography (also nominated in 1988) 1986 - Prix Albert-Tessier 1990 - Best director prize at the Flanders International Film Festival 1993 - Prix Luce-Guilbeault 1996 - Governor General's Performing Arts Award 2003 - Prix Guy-L'Écuyer 2003 - Officer of the Ordre national du Québec 2005 - Prix Jutra lifetime achievement award 2013 - Bull’s Eye Lifetime Achievement Award, Film North – Huntsville International Film Festival Selected films

Over the course of his career, Brault worked as a director or cinematographer on over 200 films. Some of the most notable of these films include: As director Fiction Matin (Short film, 1950) Geneviève (Short film, 1965) (Re-Released as part of the 1966 anthology film La fleur de l'âge) Entre la mer et l'eau douce (1967) Les ordres (1974) Le son des français d'Amérique (TV series, 1974-1980) La belle ouvrage (TV series, 1977-1980) L'emprise (Short film, 1988) Les noces de papier (TV movie, 1989) Diogène (Short film, 1990) Montréal vu par... (segment "La dernière partie", 1992) Shabbat Shalom! (TV movie, 1992) Mon amie Max (TV movie, 1994) Quand je serai parti... vous vivrez encore (1999) 30 vies (TV series, 2011) Documentaries Chèvres (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Sylvestre, 1954) La Mattawin, rivière sauvage (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Sylvestre, 1954) Les raquetteurs (Short film Co-Directed with Gilles Groulx, 1958) Eye Witness No. 101 (Documentary series Co-Directed with Grant Crabtree, 1958) La lutte (Short film Co-Directed with Marcel Carrière, Claude Fournier and Claude Jutra, 1961) Québec-U.S.A. ou l'invasion pacifique (Short film Co-Directed with Claude Jutra, 1962) Les enfants du silence (Short film, 1962) Pour la suite du monde (Co-Directed with Marcel Carrière and Pierre Perrault, 1963) Le temps perdu (Short film, 1964) Conflicts (Short film, 1967) Settlement and Conflict (Short film, 1967) Le beau plaisir (Short film Co-Directed with Pierre Perrault and Bernard Gosselin, 1968) Les enfants de Néant (Short film, 1968) Éloge du chiac (Short film, 1969) René Lévesque vous parlez: les 6 milliards (Short film, 1969) L'Acadie l'Acadie?!? (Co-Directed with Pierre Perrault, 1971) René Lévesque pour le vrai (Short film, 1973) Le bras de levier et la rivière (Short film, 1973) René Lévesque: un vrai chef (Short film, 1976) Les gens de plaisir (Short film, 1979) Il faut continuer (Short film, 1979) Le p'tit Canada (Short film, 1979) A Freedom to Move (Short film, 1985) Campaign 1986 (Short film, 1986) Tu m'aimes-tu (Video, 1991) Ozias Leduc, comme l'espace et le temps (Short film, 1996) La manic (Short film, 2002) Une chanson qui vient de loin (portrait de Claude Gauthier) (Short film, 2008) As cinematographer Chronique d'un été (1961) À St-Henri le cinq septembre (1962; shared credit) Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) Kamouraska (1973) Les Bons débarras (1980) No Mercy (1985) The Great Land of Small (1987)
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