Excerpt from History of Battery a First Illinois Light Artillery Volunteers This history I would dedicate to my dear comrades of Battery A, who stood manfully by each other during the trying times of war; and having as steadfastly continued to do so in the piping times of peace, I am encouraged in this effort to reproduce the main and important inci dents connected with the Battery's long active and eventful career. It is not strange that old comrades, who for months and years, shared the dan gers and privations of army life, in camp, on the march and battlefield; many having suffered sickness and hunger, in hospitals and prison pens, should desire to keep alive the memories and associations of those trying times. We are all hastening on to our final muster-out. In all human probability most of our surviving comrades will have answered the last roll call, by the close of the next decade, and will assemble on the parade ground of eternity. 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.