| Date | Location | Comment |
| 1861 June 25 | Equality, Illinois | Enrolled in Company B, Illinois Cavalry Volunteers, Regiment 1, as bugler |
| 1861 July 9 | Alton, Illinois | On muster-in roll for Capt. Foster’s Co. 1st Regiment Illinois Cavalry, musician |
| 1861 Sept 20 | Lexington, Missouri | Taken prisoner at the Battle of Lexington |
| 1861 Nov 21 | Springfield, Illinois | Discharged from Capt. James B. Foster’s 1st Regiment of Illinois Cavalry by reason of having been taken prisoner at Lexington, Missouri |
| 1861 Nov 23 | Springfield, Illinois | Mustered out with Company; age 24; value of horse, $80 |
| 1861 Nov 13 | Logansport, Illinois | Enrolled in Company G, 56th Regiment Illinois Infantry as a private |
| 1861 Nov 15 | McLeansborough, Illinois | Enrolled in Company F, 56th Illinois Infantry Volunteers; present through February 28, 1862 |
| 1862 Feb 27 | Shawneetown, Illinois | On muster-in roll |
| 1862 Mar/Apr | At home on sick furlough | |
| 1862 April 3 | Absent; at home, sick | |
| 1862 May 1 | Furloughed from Paducah, Kentucky | |
| 1862 June 30 | Absent; at home, sick | |
| 1862 July/Aug | Absent | |
| 1862 Aug 21 | Harrisburg, Illinois | Present/ 2d Lieutenant |
| 1862 Aug 31 | Absent, furloughed by Col. S. Noble at Paducah, Kentucky | |
| 1862 Sept 26 | Deserted from Co. F, 56th Illinois Infantry and dropped from rolls | |
| 1862 Oct 2 | Harrisburg, Illinois | Married to Mary E. Pierce |
| 1862 Oct 29 | Mustered in to Company F, 120th Illinois Volunteers, as a 2d Lieutenant. Commanded by Capt. Wm. Roark | |
| 1862 Dec | “Present” sick on the muster roll, Company F | |
| 1863 Jan 16 | Memphis, Tennessee | Resigned from 120th Regiment, Illinois Infantry. Resignation accepted by order of Gen. U.S. Grant |
| 1864 Sept 15 | Enlisted as Navy seaman for three years and served on the USS Springfield | |
| 1864 Sept 30 | Rated gunner's mate | |
| 1864 Oct 1 | Gunner’s Mate on the USS Springfield | |
| 1865 Aug 19 | Gunner’s Mate on the USS Great Western | |
| 1865 Sept 9 | Discharged from the USS Great Western and from the Naval Service |
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Zephaniah Phillips Enrolled in Company B, Illinois Cavalry Volunteers, Regiment 1, as a bugler, in June 1861. After being taken prisoner on September 20, 1861, in the Battle of Lexington, Missouri, he was discharged. He next enrolled in Company F, 56th Illinois Infantry Volunteers, as a private.He was absent or sick most of the time and was finally dropped from the rolls for desertion in September 1862. The following month he married Mary E. Pierce in Harrisburg, Illinois, and then joined Company F, 120th Illinois Volunteers as a 2d Lieutenant. Three months later, in January 1863, he resigned from that regiment. In September 1864 he enlisted as Navy seaman and served on the USS Springfield and then on the USS Great Western. A year later he was discharged from the Navy.
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