Excerpt from Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, Vol. 7: Containing Reports for the Years 1861-66 Early in the spring of 1864 the government of the Northwestern States, namely: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, believing that the rebellion was nearing its close, and desiring to aid the Government in every way possible, tendered to the President a volunteer force of o-ne hundred-day men, to relieve the veteran soldiers from guard duty at our forts, arsenals and elsewhere. Of this number Illinois furnished thirteen regiments and two battalions. 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.