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From: "Lois Burdick" <>
Subject: Re: [ILWILL] Home Guard
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 14:17:05 -0600
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My husbands great grandfather, Isaac " Lewis " Burdick was a member of Co.
D 100th Illinois Infantry from Will Co. IL and died in 1902 and is buried in
Union Cemetery, North of Meno, Major Co. OK
He was married to Mary Louis Countryman also from Will Co. IL.
Anyone looking for them? Lois Burdick


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Subject: [ILWILL] Home Guard


> I've been researching in Will County for more years than I care to admit
> to, but I have never come across a reference to a Home Guard. The closest
> thing I can find to it is the fact that the Illinois General Assembly in
> 1861 passed a law requiring that the townships prepare a list of
> able-bodied, free, white males between the ages of 18 and 45, subject to
> military duty. As far as I know, the lists were to be filed with the
> Clerk of the County Court and the Adjutant General's Office in
> Springfield. The lists were sometimes referred to as Militia Rolls.
> Sheila K.
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