ILLINOIS IN THE CIVIL WAR : FROM 200,000 B.C. TO 1492, A HERETICAL HISTORY OF WHO WAS FIRST

Victor Hicken tells the richly detailed story of the common soldiers who marched from Illinois to fight and die on Civil War battlefields. The second edition of the 1966 classic includes a new preface, twenty-four illustrations, and a twenty-five-page addendum to the bibliography that provides many new sources of information on Illinois regiments.