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of 1862, by the Governor, for some State troops to serve for the period of three months as State

Militia. The muster of the Regiment was effected early in June. Commissions were issued to

Elias Stewart, as Colonel; Houston L. Taylor, as Lieutenant Colonel, and George W. Lackey, as

Major.

Shortly after the Regiment was organized, a petition was circulated, and very generally signed by

both officers and men, asking that the terms of enlistment be changed from the of State Militia to

Illinois Volunteers, and that the Regiment be sent into the field. In accordance with the petition

the Regiment was mustered into the United States service, and on the 5th day of July received

marching orders. Leaving Camp Butler, it proceeded by rail to Wheeling, Virginia, arriving

there on the 7th. After remaining there two days, it moved again, under orders from the

Secretary of War, to Washington City. It remained at the "Soldier's Retreat", a place more

romantic and endearing in name than in fact, until July 14, when under special orders it

proceeded down the Potomac on boat, to Alexandria, Virginia, and thence, by march, out on the

Duke street turnpike about two miles. A spot was selected by Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, then in

command, (Colonel Stewart being absent on business) and "Camp Taylor" was established.

After remaining here about two weeks, during which time the measles appeared among the

ranks, upon the return of Colonel Stewart the Regiment was ordered to a more healthful location

about two miles above Alexandria, near the Potomac.

It remained in the new camp, spending the time in company and battalion drill, until August 24,

when it was ordered into Alexandria as Provost Guards.

Colonel Stewart being sick, Lieutenant Colonel Taylor commanding, was appointed Provost

Marshal, and First Lieutenant H. C. DeMotte, of Company G, Assistant. The Regiment

remained on duty at this point until the term of its enlistment had expired.

On the 17th of September it was ordered to report to Camp Butler to be mustered out. Reaching

that place on the 21st, the men were mustered out on the 26th and received their pay October 1.

Some of the men immediately re-enlisted to fill up other Regiments, but most of them returned to

their homes.

The Sixty-eighth Regiment, though in the service only a short time, had some companies that

were thoroughly drilled in the manual of arms, and in company and battalion movements. The

skirmish companies of the Regiment, "F" and "G", were especially proficient in the school of the

soldier and in skirmish and Zouave drill.

The boys of the Sixty-eighth were never under fire, they did the duty assigned them with alacrity.

It was theirs to care for the wounded as they were sent in to Alexandria from the disastrous field

of Bull Run.

They once passed in Grand Review before President Lincoln, being the only Illinois Regiment

present on that occasion; and when Company G, at the command of their Captain, gave a lusty

"seven and a tiger" for the President, his kindly recognition of the boys from Illinois by waving

his hat, and his evident pleasure, manifested by a smile which lit up his careworn countenance,

saved the company from reproof by superior commanders.

The Seventieth Regiment was organized at Camp Butler, Ill., and was mustered in July 4, 1862.

It remained at Camp Butler doing guard duty.