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Excerpt from Biographical Sketches of Illinois Officers Engaged in the War Against the Rebellion of 1861 This is their last great stake. The despe ration with which they have fought has devel oped the depth, intensity and recklessness of their designs. Their mode of warfare is the most malignant, desperate and savage. Thus we are brought to the very crisis Of the rebel lion, and all our hopes, and the hopes of this great country, hang upon the issue. It is for this reason that the President tele graphs me in a private dispatch, Time is everything. Please act in view of this. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.