Excerpt from History of the 4th Regiment, Illinois Infantry Volunteers: Otherwise Known as the Hundred and Two Dozen, From August, 1862, to August, 1865
At the request of a portion of the survivors of our dear old regiment, I have compiled and written its history. Not because I recognized in myself any peculiar qualifications for the task, but because I loved its members, was proud of its record, and wished its history to be written. The labor has been sandwiched in among the severe duties of an arduous pastorate, and the result is not what it might have been, if some leisure could have been given to it. But it has been a labor of love, and as in my study I have lived the old days, and fought the old battles over, one after another, our dear comrades, both living and dead, have seemed to stand by my side and fill my room, as I could not have believed it possible after the lapse of so many years. And in their coming, considering their numbers, they have brought but little to pain, with much, very much, to gladden. And if you, my dear readers, enjoy the perusal of this book half as well as I have the work of preparing it, I shall deem my labor an eminent success.
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