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J. W. Langley,
(Late Colonel of the 125th Volunteer Infantry.)
The 125th Regiment
 Illinois Volunteer Infantry.
 Attention Battalion!
By ROBERT M. ROGERS,
Late Second Sergeant Co. B.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.
GAZETTE STEAM PRINT.
1882.
To the Memory
—OF THOSE—
Officers and Enlisted Men,
Who leaving the endearments and comforts of
home, willingly came at their country's call to her service,
and on her altar yielded up their lives,
this book is affectionately dedicated by the
Author.
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INTRODUCTION.
Comrades and Friends:
In presenting to you this record of our militarylife and of the time we passed in the service of the Government, wehave done it with the hope that our efforts will be appreciated by you.Our desire has been to make this a record, which we can leave behindus after we are gone, to those who may come after us. Wehave done our best to make it reliable and correct. There may bemistakes in it—undoubtedly there are; but the general statementsare correct, we know, while the incidents recounted are true, asmany of you will aver after you have read them. We have had tolabor under great difficulties in preparing for your inspection andbenefit these pages, and at times have almost become discouraged,but we persevered, and at last succeeded in getting them into ashape which we thought would warrant us in placing them in thehands of the printer, and distributing them among you. Betweenthe covers of the book you will find not only a record of ourmarches, battles, and bivouacs, but also a complete roster of theRegiment, showing what became of every man who, on the 3rd dayof September, 1862, was mustered into the service of the UnitedStates in the 125th Illinois; whether he died on the field of battle,was taken prisoner, transferred to other organizations, or was musteredout with the Regiment at Chicago, when only 343 of theoriginal one thousand who filled the Regiment when we left home,answered to their names. If he is buried in any GovernmentCemetery, the number of his grave is given. Hoping that our endeavorsto make, for the regiment, a record which shall be not onlyivvaluable but also entertaining, and one which shall meet with yourapprobation, we place it in your hands for perusal.
But be assured that not one word has been written in thesepages with the intention of wounding any one's feelings in the least.Far from it! We have too much                         
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