Excerpt from Virginia Military Organizations in the World War: With Supplement of Distinguished Service But Virginia is tenacious of state history and of state names honored through decades. Thus the state clung to the name of its Virginia militia and did not change the Virginia Volunteers to the National Guard until the summer of 1916. Even this new title was lost when the National Guard units were mustered into Federal service in 1917-1918. This volume rescues and conserves the history of these Virginia units and connects it With the pre-war history. It preserves the continuity of Virginia's military chronicles and even links the World War with the Civil War. It is an important task that offered many interesting problems of plan and method and relative values. To trace the Virginia Units among the American forces, to secure the manuscript or printed history of each unit, and to compile these into a narrative source volume of 400 pages - all this called for something of concerted labor and patient effort. 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.