They felt that this change of period released them from the obligation of re-volunteering.

When I was appointed colonel, the 21st regiment was still in the State service.
About the time they were to be mustered into the United States service, such of them as would go, two members of Congress from the State, McClernand and Logan, appeared at the capital and I was introduced to them.

I had never seen either of them before, but I had read a great deal about them, and particularly about Logan, in the newspapers.

Both were democratic members of Congress, and Logan had been elected from the southern district of the State, where he had a majority of eighteen thousand over his Republican competitor.

His district had been settled originally by people from the Southern States, and at the breaking out of secession they sympathized with the South.