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Excerpt from Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Vol. 8: Commandery of the District of Columbia
Lincoln's adopted State, Illinois. Under the calls of July 2 and August 4, 1862, placed in service men. Of that number over - from the farmers and mechanics of the State - were furnished within eleven days. Animated bv a common purpose, and firmly resolved on rescuing the Government, at if it (they) left their harvests ungathered, their tools on their benches, the plows in the furrows; thus making a proud record, without a parallel in the history of the war. 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.
