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	Illinois National Guard Adjutants General
		When Illinois became a territory in 1809, the office of Territorial Adjutant General was created.
		William Alexander was the serving Territorial Adjutant General when Illinois became the 21st State of the Union.
		Illinois’ longest serving Adjutant General was Major General Leo Boyle, who held the office for 28 years.
	www.il.ngb.army.mil /History/adjutant.htm (98 words)

	Regimental History
		Adjutant General records give the lie to this contention of Parker's for both companies were mustered into the Sixty-Third Illinois on the same day, Campion's Company D weighted with men from Bloomington, McLean County, Parker's Company H with men from Decatur, Macon County.
		General Geary, whom the men did not like, told them that "to lose the Seventh would be to lose the seventh star of the Pleiades," and that "they were dear to him as the apple of his eye." The men were disgusted.
		That regiment was more voluble in their Adjutant General's regimental history about the circumstances of their reenlistment: "Here the troops were on the point of starvation several times, having, for days at a time, nothing but corn in the ear, and but a limited supply of that.
	www.51illinois.org /page4.html (11769 words)

	USATODAY.com - Misconduct marks Guard command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		General Ron Rand, head of Air Force public affairs, described the letter of reprimand written to Davis by the Air Force secretary as the kind that could be career ending for a general on active duty.
		Kentucky Adjutant General Robert DeZarn was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison in 1997 for perjury after he lied to Pentagon investigators about his role in asking Guard officers to make $500 campaign contributions to Gov. Brereton Jones.
		Danny James, the adjutant general of Texas, was nominated this fall by President Bush to become head of the Air National Guard in the United States.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/12/17/guard-usatcov.htm (2615 words)

	State of Illinois - Pat Quinn, Lt. Governor - 12 Great Causes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Over 13,000 taxpayers in Illinois contributed to the Multiple Sclerosis Assistance Fund on their 2002 Illinois State Tax Income Forms, raising $144,000 for people with MS in Illinois, and securing a spot for MS on the 2003 returns.
		Illinois has one of the nation's highest mortality rates from asthma- related causes with approx.
		The Illinois Adjutant General - Illinois' highest-ranking officer - has control of the fund and is responding to all requests for financial assistance to help with such expenses as rent, groceries or school clothes.
	www.state.il.us /ltgov/twelve (1095 words)

	Plummer/Lincoln's Rail Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby. Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		No general, he opined, "had the right to make such a sacrifice of human life." The other generals reluctantly agreed, but they wanted to pass the ignoble task of surrendering down the chain of command from Floyd to Pillow to Buckner.
		He also wrote to the adjutant general in Washington, asking that his promotion be given rank over John Cook of the Seventh Illinois because he had seniority as a colonel.
		General Hackleman suffered what was to be a mortal wound, and Col. Silas D. Baldwin was slightly wounded in the hand.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /epub/books/plummer/ch4.html (8926 words)

	Ulysses S. Grant: Civil War General
		When the general of the fort asked for the terms of surrender, Grant replied: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted." After Grant captured the forts, he was promoted to major general.
		Everyone thought that General Grant would retreat, as had all other Union generals under similar circumstances, but in one of the bravest and most brilliant decisions of the war, he marched south instead to Spotsylvania Court House, hoping to entrench his army and force Lee to attack him.
		In the Civil War, the advantage was always with the defender, and by 1864 generals on both sides tried to entrench their armies and fight defensively, forcing the enemy to attack.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1993/ihy930225.html (1404 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Illinois: Adjutant Generals
		Adjutant Generals of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1810's (may be incomplete!)
		Adjutant Generals of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1820's (may be incomplete!)
		Adjutant Generals of Illinois: Events and Candidates of the 1830's (may be incomplete!)
	politicalgraveyard.com /geo/IL/ofc/adgen.html (404 words)

	Illinois.gov - Illinois Government News Network (IGNN) - Search the News Results
		He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1983 to 1992 and since 1993 as the Senior Vice President for Government Relations for the Illinois Hospital & HealthSystems Association.
		Under Senate Bill 1227, the qualifications for selection as adjutant general or assistant adjutant general shall be 10 years of more of active, commissioned service in a component of the United States armed forces and the rank of -- or the equivalent to -- colonel or lieutenant colonel.
		The adjutant general must be a member of the Illinois National Guard.
	www.illinois.gov /PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=1&RecNum=1229 (512 words)

	LincolnCourier.com
		The General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, reported last fall that nondeployed Guard units nationwide had only about one-third of the equipment they need for overseas missions, and said that "hampers their ability to prepare for future missions and conduct domestic operations."
		As for a potential problem with training due to equipment problems, Shimkus said the Illinois Guard, which has had 85 percent of its units in Iraq, has plenty of experience with combat that it did not have prior to 9/11.
		A spokeswoman for the National Guard Bureau, which oversees Guard operations nationwide, said that Illinois' Guard was deemed adequately prepared for any natural disaster, terrorist strike or other emergency in a required assessment made by the Illinois Adjutant General's office.
	www.lincolncourier.com /story.asp?SID=2893&SEC=8 (837 words)

	Alton, Illinois - Civil War Era - Emptying the St. Louis Arsenal
		Among all the northern states Illinois was unique in that it had the longest border of any state bounding slave states.
		One of the earliest and most daring exploits during the war, which is briefly alluded to in the Report of Adjutant General Fuller of 1863, was the capture of the United States Arsenal at St. Louis, by Capt. James H. Stokes, of Chicago.
		In order, however, to reach the arsenal in safety, Adjutant General Fuller says he "was obliged to deny the principles of his manhood and avow disloyal sentiments to escape the vengeance of the mob the surrounded the arsenal.
	www.altonweb.com /history/civilwar/1861-2.htm (629 words)

	GX Online
		More than 250 Soldiers of the Illinois Army National Guard were called up to assess damage in one of the hardest hit areas of Illinois, Macon County, and more specifically, the city of Decatur.
		The Illinois Guard members began covering rural areas of Macon County and started going door-to-door assessing the snow and ice damage and distributing vital emergency information about warming shelters, cold weather injury symptoms and the dangers of alternate heat sources to residents who stayed in their homes despite not having electricity.
		Illinois Emergency Management Agency, the Red Cross and local Macon County and Decatur emergency responders had joined hands in covering the areas as quickly as possible to make sure citizens that remained in their homes were doing okay.
	www.gxonline.com /gxintelnews?id=36577 (950 words)

	State of Illinois - Rod Blagojevich, Governor
		Given the failed priorities of the Illinois State Board of Education, it is no surprise that the education system in Illinois is failing.
		The current structure of education governance in Illinois ensures that ISBE is not accountable to anyone.
		Provide books for all children in Illinois from birth until age five, so that they are in possession of a “personal library” by the time they enter kindergarten.
	www.illinois.gov /gov/sos2004educationplan.cfm (5513 words)

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		Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas -1869.
		Annual report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas for the year...
		Adjutant General's Dept. TITLE Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Texas...
	www.colorado.edu /libraries/govpubs/lsca/authors/adjutant.htm (1218 words)

	THE 37TH ILLINOIS INFANTRY COMPANY B.
		DECEMBER 7, 1862.--Battle of Prairie Grove, Fayetteville, or Illinois Creek, Ark.
		Company A and B are affiliated under the larger, Frontier Brigade, which is comprised of Federal Reenactors from Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Illinois, Nebraska, and Montana.
		The 37th Illinois was very active in Arkansas during the Civil War, playing key roles in the battles of Prairie Grove and Pea Ridge.
	www.cswnet.com /~gdavenpo (237 words)

	Illinois Spanish-American War Veterans Database
		This database of Illinois Spanish—American War Veterans indexes the portion of the ninth volume of the nine volume publication, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, which lists veterans of that war.
		(The remainder of the ninth and the other eight volumes list veterans of the Black Hawk, Mexican, and Civil Wars.) This 1902 publication, originating from the rosters maintained by the Illinois Adjutant General, is the result of an 1899 Illinois statute mandating that the rosters of Illinois volunteers be printed.
		The database was created and donated to the Illinois State Archives by Fred Delap of Kansas, Illinois.
	www.sos.state.il.us /departments/archives/spanam.html (414 words)

	Art and Medicine Bibliography, Charles M Clark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Subsequently, he was placed in charge of the Military Hospital at Richmond, where he remained until its final abandonment in September 1865, being then ordered to Norfolk, Virginia, as chief medical officer of the district, and in charge of the Post Hospital.
		Clark, Charles M., The history of the Thirty-ninth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Veteran Infantry (Yates Phalanx) in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865.
		Illinois Adjutant General's Office, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ; Springfield, IL : Phillips Brothers, State Printers, 1900-1902 ; 9 vols.
	www.artandmedicine.com /biblio/authors/ClarkC.html (286 words)

	Illinois Genealogy
		These are only the original land sales made by the federal government, and thus are largely limited to the period of early settlement and development in any given county.
		Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois.
		Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Illinois : Transcription of the Death Rolls, 1879-1947.
	www.newberry.org /genealogy/illinois.html (527 words)

	Illinois Republican Party :: News Item
		WASHINGTON (AP) The Illinois National Guard has among the worst inventories of equipment necessary to handle a disaster at home or a war overseas, according to a report prepared by federal investigators comparing Army National Guard units across the nation.
		The report, released Tuesday by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, showed Illinois with 45.6 percent of its authorized inventory as of November 2006 eighth-worst among the 50 states, the District of Columbia and three U.S. territories.
		As recently as last September, an Illinois National Guard spokeswoman said Illinois units were adequately prepared for natural disasters, terrorist strikes or other emergencies, based on an assessment by the Illinois Adjutant General's Office.
	www.ilgop.org /news/Read.aspx?ID=3484 (436 words)

	USATODAY.com - FBI sting nabs Illinois Guard's chief of staff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The IG's job is to investigate allegations of wrongdoing against Guard members and report directly to the adjutant general, the state's top officer.
		Their attorney, James Moody, says that there is no oversight of the National Guard and that senior officers in Illinois "protected each other." Moody says Burgess has not filed a legal response to the allegations in the lawsuit.
		Former adjutant general Richard Austin, who left the Illinois Guard in 1999, also declined to comment because he is named in the suit.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2001/12/17/guard-burgess.htm (733 words)

	TAF - Illinois False Claims Acts
		The Attorney General shall delegate the authority to issue civil investigative demands under this subsection (a) to the Department of State Police.
		(v) describe the general purpose for which the demand is being issued and the general nature of the testimony, including the primary areas of inquiry, which will be taken pursuant to the demand.
		The Attorney General shall authorize the performance by the delegate of the Department of State Police by any function vested in the Attorney General under this subparagraph (G).
	www.taf.org /illinoisfca.htm (5298 words)

	State of Illinois - Pat Quinn, Lt. Governor - Op-Ed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Illinois is home to the ninth largest state National Guard in the nation.
		Administered by the Illinois Department of Military Affairs, the Military Family Relief Fund will be used to provide financial grants to families of those called to active duty who request assistance for items such as utility bills, long-distance phone bills, rent, groceries or day care.
		I salute these patriots who have already organized successful fundraisers to benefit the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund and appeal to all Illinois businesses, community groups, residents and students to follow their lead, and lend a hand to the families of Illinois' citizen-soldiers.
	www.state.il.us /ltgov/oped/military.asp (680 words)

	Civil War Database Bibliography
		Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kansas 1861-65.
		Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky 1861-65.
		Adjutant General Record of the Officers and Men of New Jersey in the Civil War 1861-65.
	home.att.net /~rworthington/History/Civil_War_DB_Bibliography.html (836 words)

	A Civil War Story
		A short time later he was confronted by the pretty young daughter of the household who protested to General Sheridan against the orders of a young staff lieutenant that she remove all her personal belongings and finery from the closet of her room which the lieutenant was about to take over.
		The dashing young general is reported to have told her that she could put her things in his room, a suggestion that the young lady blushingly declined.
		It was given to General Daniel McCook's brigade to carry the hill defended by the rebel General Cheatham who had entrenched it and placed batteries just as if he expected a major assault to be made at that very point.
	www.chenowethsite.com /chcaley.htm (10554 words)

	Illinois National Guard Bibliography
		History of the Thirty-third Regiment Illinois Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the civil War 22nd August, 1861, to 7th December, 1865 by General Isaac H. Elliott with Company and Personal Sketches by Other Comrades; also Complete Historical Rosters Compiled by Virgil G. Way, Secretary and Treasurer of the Regimental Association.
		"In Lincoln's Shadow: The Springfield, Illinois, Race Riot of 1908." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1986.
		Adjutant General's Report, Containing the Complete Muster-Out Rolls of the Illinois Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 2898 and 1899.
	www.army.mil /Cmh-Pg/arng/NG-IL.htm (816 words)

	Civil War Flags
		According to the Illinois Adjutant General's records this flag was captured at the battle of Mobile Bay by Co. C of the 8th Illinois Infantry, commanded by Major Daniel Sayer of Chicago and Charleston, Illinois.
		Sayer brought the flag home with him to Charleston (Coles County) IL, and it remained in the family until it was donated to the State by Rockwell T. Sayer, son of Daniel in memory of his father.
		Many of the photos are the property of and used with permission from the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois.
	www.civil-war.com /searchpages/confdetail.asp?ID=2 (159 words)

	Illinois Statehouse - First Floor
		Illinois' historic battle flags on display in War Museum on the southwest side of the 1st floor.
		Bracken do not refer to the model by name, but seem to indicate that it was someone she and her husband were well acquainted with.
		This area of the capitol was once the office of the Illinois Adjutant General.
	www.ilstatehouse.com /1st_floor.htm (627 words)

	The 16th/60th Regiments Illinois Infantry Volunteers
		I have a particular interest in the units of Illinois and Kentucky because I have relatives who participated in the "sectional war" and were forced to make the decision to "side with," and remain loyal to, the region in which their homes were located.
		In the case of those from Illinois, though they were originally from Kentucky, they chose to enlist in the Illinois regiments.
		Cochran, enlisted in Company D of the 16th Regiment Illinois Infantry during the conflict and was transferred to the 60th Regiment 1 January, 1864.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/5960/16th.html (343 words)

	Ameren's Contribution to the Illinois Military Relief Fund
		Drafted by Quinn, the “Illinois Military Family Relief Act” was passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Rod Blagojevich earlier this year.
		Its purpose is to assist the families of Illinois National Guard members and reservists who face economic hardship when the breadwinner is on active duty.
		The St. Louis Business Journal recently recognized Ameren for having one of the most generous military leave plans in the St. Louis metropolitan area for its employees who are called to service.
	www.ameren.com /aboutus/adc_au_il_military_relief_fund.asp (509 words)

	Timothy Donavon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Ten days after he was mustered into service with the rest of the regiment for three years of service.
		What is interesting about Donavon is that according to his muster records he was twenty years of age, (Illinois Adjutant General’s Report) but on the 1860 census he is listed as seventeen years of age.
		(Illinois Adjutant General’s Report) But to possibly clarify these date problems The Story of the 55th Illinois Infantry shows Donavon “Enlisted at Elgin, October 21, 1864.
	members.aol.com /il55thvols/soldiers/DonavonT.html (213 words)

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