A difference in style, and other features, will enable the reader to readily determine the authorship of different portions of the work, and yet it may be proper to state that the first twenty and last seven chapters, as well as the appendix, were prepared by Mr. The parties engaged in the preparation of the work have written independently of each other, each taking up a period of time and detailing the events within that period, without the aid of the other. Then to sift facts from fiction, and to see that all parties or portions of the regiment were properly represented, required much tact and skill. Them and obtain their contributions was a herculean task.
At the very outset, those who were expected to contribute materials were scattered over much of the Western Hemisphere, and to reach The new historian early associated with him the former one, and dividing the work between them, the result has been the present volume.įew persons can comprehend the great labor and difficulties attending the preparation of a work of this kind.
At the annual reunion of the surviving comrades in 1875, another historian was selected, new auxiliary committees created, and an impetus given which promised success. But little progress was made, and as the years passed by and the work was not accomplished, or even fairly commenced, other appointments were made, but without satisfactory results. A historian was appointed, and committees from each company selected to assist in the collection of material, and to collate and prepare it for the press. They, many years ago, inaugurated measures looking to the collection of the annals of the Regiment, and their publication. In the presentation of our History of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, to the public, we have no apologies to offer for what may seem an intrusion, in adding another volume to the already overburdened "literature of the war." The survivors of the "Old Thirty-Sixth" have long felt the want of such a work, for one among many other reasons, to correct the errors and to supply the omissions of the general historian.
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