The 108th United States Colored Troops (USCT) infantry was one of 170 Civil War ... 50 soldiers died during the regiment's time in Rock Island. Those men are buried at Rock Island National Cemetery.

Abigail Hylton of Oneonta, assigned to the Company B, Recruiting & Retention Battalion, received a promotion Oct. 19, to the rank of private.

After nearly a year of activation, soldiers from the Calhoun-based 1st Squadron, 108th Cavalry Regiment return home over the ...