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He knows Illinois' Civil War soldiers -- 285,000 of them: Genealogy buff spends 5 years entering their data for Web site

Illinois State Archives director David Joens says, "You can't write the history of the Civil War without Illinois."

And, he might add, not without some help from Fred Delap, either.

Key players from the Prairie State include Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. Although there were no Civil War battles on Illinois soil, the state provided 150 infantry regiments, 17 cavalry regiments and 10 artillery batteries for the war.

And Delap?

A retired Army master sergeant who lives in the small Downstate town of Kansas, Delap painstakingly typed into a computer details of about 285,000 Illinois soldiers who served in the Civil War. Transferring data from microfilm of large, ...

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