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Title: History of the Ninety-sixth Regiment, Illinois volunteer Infantry
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Partridge, Charles Addison, 1843- comp
Subjects: United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 96th (1862-1865)
Publisher: Chicago (Brown, Pettibone, printers)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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. _.._. . .. _ - .-.._.._--- THOMAS E. CHAMPION. COLONEL AND BREVET BRIGADIER GENERAL. CHAPTER I. Events Leading to the War—The Slavery Question—The Missouri Com-promise—Fugitive Slave Laws Enacted—The Difficulty of EnforcingThem — A Supreme Court Decision — Anti-Slavery Literature —Lincolns Election a Pretext for Rebellion—Preparations for War atthe South—The Great Conspiracy—Secession Ordinances Passed—The Guns of Sumter Echo Through the Land—The Response at theNorth—Alternate Victories and Defeats — Advantages Gained—ACrisis Reached in tin- Summer of 1862—A Second Grand Uprising atthe North—A Half Million Enlistments in Two Months. To the general historian must be committed the task ofrelating, in detail, the events which preceded and culminatedin the War of the Rebellion. And yet. in a work of thischaracter, there seems to be an appropriateness in outliningthese events, and also in narrating, briefly, the work under-taken by the armies of the Unio

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