Excerpt from Historical Sketch of the Chicago Board of Trade Battery: Horse Artillery Illinois Volunteers The Chicago Board of Trade Battery was among the very first of the volunteer organizations to respond to President Abraham Lincoln's'call for three hundred thousand men on July 6, 1862. Pif teen days thereafter the first members of the Battery signed the muster roll for three years. Within the next forty-eight hours a full company was enrolled. The story of the activities, valor, endurance and capacity for fighting against all or any odds of this remarkable vol unteer organization is told only in outline in the existing records. Beginning at Lawrenceburg, Ky., Oct. 11, 1862, the Battery was prominently engaged in the great battles of the West, moving rapidly to effective participation in the battles of Stone River, Elk River, Chickamauga, F armington, Dallas, Decatur, Atlanta, Lovejoy, N ash ville and Selma, and in the great battles of the Army of the Cumberland - Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, Marietta, Vining Station, Noonday Creek, Stone Mountain and in many minor engage ments and raids - altogether, ID eleven of the hardest-fought battles of the West; in twenty-six other battles and in action forty-two times when on scouts, raids, reconnoissances and outpost duty. 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.