Complete History of the 46th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry

Download or read book Complete History of the 46th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry written by Thomas B. Jones and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Complete History of the 46th Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: A Full and Authentic Account of the Participation of the Regiment in the Battles, Sieges, Skirmishes and Expeditions in Which It Was Engaged The Slave States had threatened disunion for many years, only await ing a pretext to bring the conspiracy to destroy the Union to its culmina tion. The election oi' President Abraham Lincoln furnished that pretext, but the overt act of treason was not committed until February, 1861. Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor was fired upon and at noon on the i3th day of that month, for the first time since the organization of our Govern ment, our national ensign ivas struck to traitors. 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.