MCCWRT Discussion Group, Jan. 26-- Part 1: New Book on the 15th Illinois Regiment

This last Saturday, the McHenry County Civil War Round Table discussion group braved the cold to meet at Panera Bread in Crystal Lake, Illinois.  This month's topic was "Hood's 1864 Tennessee Campaign."

The first thing we discussed was the forthcoming book by local authors Betty Obendorf and Kathy Pasch "The Gallant 15th  of Illinois--  History of a Civil War Infantry Regiment,"  on the 15th Illinois Volunteer Regiment.  This regiment is of particular interest to us because three of the companies, A B and F were from McHenry County.  And the rest of the companies were from the northern part of Illinois.

Companies came from Algonquin, Marengo and Woodstock in McHenry County.  Other companies from Belvidere, Lena, Mt. Carroll, Polo, Rockford, Warren and Waukegan.

A whole bunch of us placed orders for the book and we hope to have the authors speak at a regular meeting in the future.

The book took ten years to write.

Looking forward to getting it.

A Book A day.  --Old Secesh