Newlin, W. H.. A History of the Seventy-Third Regiment of Illinois Infantry Volunteers: Its Services and Experiences in Camp, on the March, on the Picket and Skirmish Lines, and in Many Battles of the War, 1861-65 . Springfield, IL: Regimental Reunion Assocation of Survivors of the 73d Illinois Infantry Volunteers, 1890. [format: book], [genre: history; memoir]. Permission: Public domain
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Introduction.

AT a meeting of the Regimental Reunion Association of survivors of the 73d Illinois Volunteers, held at Decatur, October 8, 1888, it was decided that a committee, consisting of three members of the Association, be appointed to prepare a history of the regiment. The object in view, at the time, was to have such history prepared, and have it read to the Association at its next meeting. After consideration of the matter by the Association, its President, Captain Charles Tilton, appointed W. H. Newlin, D. F. Lawler, and J. W. Sherrick as the committee to prepare such history. This action, as ratified or aquiesced in by the Association, may be said to be the beginning or foundation of this work. At the same meeting, a committee consisting of W. H. Newlin, E. J. Ingersoll, J. L. Morgan, and G. W. Patten, was appointed to collect evidence and prepare a report, or history, showing the positions held and the part performed by the 73d Illinois, and incidentally by the brigade, in the campaign in Tennessee, in 1864, from Columbia to Nashville.

The work of this committee, as completed and shown in full herein, seemed to strengthen the purpose as well as justify the labor of writing a full and complete history of the regiment from the time of its entry into service until its muster out. The investigation and search made by this committee, also disclosed the existence of more material out of which to make a history of the

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