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Excerpt from Military History and Reminiscences of the Thirteenth Regiment of Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865 A book written to contribute the proper acknowledgement of worthy deeds, and to add to the enjoyment of those who may come after us, is in order. Such is the design and hope of this unpretentious record. As the individual stone has its part in rearing the mountain, so the organization of our regiment, we are happy to say and show, bore a very honorable part in the most worthy efforts of the army and navy of the United States. In telling this story, as you, surviving comrades, have asked the committee to, we shall do what seems to us represents our regiment fairly. When we are called upon to touch upon individual records, we may seem to some to give scant or overdue preferences; yet such is not our intent. We shall not feel called upon to laboriously vindicate any one nor in many words condemn any man's course. As a regiment, we have 110 particular complaints of not having had an open door to glory ; for if long marches and sharp fighting be glory, then we got enough to settle the froth on our patriotism of 1861, and cooled to the point of going slow before taking a contract of like size again. We were called by the Government in its hour of special peril. We promptly responded. There was toil and exposure and suffering and death to many. If we who live may be permitted to speak for all, we would say that we would not change it. The Union was preserved and humanity was helped by it. In what better way can men exert themselves or even sacrifice life. Our men lie buried far and wide. 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.