Editor's Page

Fifty-three men from Illinois rose to the rank of general to lead these men, and thousands more on the home front provided the means and support systems to keep these men in the field until they could return as victors. In the Prairie State, these include a documentary history of Illinois, Illinois's War (2013), edited by Mark Hubbard, and a new book entitled Civil War Chicago (2014) by esteemed professors and authors, Theodore J. Karamanski and Eileen McMahon. Archaeological surveys, conducted in conjunction with Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology and Northern Michigan University are striving to definitively mark the camp's boundaries. David Joens, Director of the Illinois State Archives, will close out the Sesquicentennial as guest editor for the 2015 issue. [...]I take this opportunity to express my gratitude for having had the opportunity to shape the memory of Illinois' contribution to the Civil War during the Sesquicentennial.