History of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers During the War of the Rebellion (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteers During the War of the Rebellion<br><br>In the presentation of our History of the thirty-sixth Reg iment Illinois Volunteers to the public we have no apologies to offer for what may seem an intrusion in adding another vol ume to the already overburdened literature of the war. The survivors of the Old thirty-sixth have long felt the want of such a work for one among many other reasons to correct the errors and to supply the omissions of the general historian. They many years ago inaugurated measures looking to the col lection of the annals of the Regiment and their publication. A historian was appointed and committees from each company selected to assist in the collection of material and to collate and prepare it for the press. But little progress was made and as the years passed by and the work was not accomplished or even fairly commenced other appointments were made but without satisfactory results. At the annual reunion of the surviving comrades in 1875 another historian was selected new auxil iary committees created and an impetus given which promised success. The new historian early associated with him the former one and dividing the work between them the result has been the present volume.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.