Military Affairs Committee Illinois Volunteer Training Corps correspondence, bulletins, and pamphlets, 1917-1919.

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Military Affairs Committee Illinois Volunteer Training Corps correspondence, bulletins, and pamphlets, 1917-1919.

Correspondence between local draft boards and the Illinois Volunteer Training Corps of Cook County concerns drills; speakers; parades; transfer and discharge requests. Record also include memoranda concenring military lectures; commissions; administrative forms; regulation pamphlets; commanding officers' meeting minutes; receipts; and an exemption board list showing their locations.

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Illinois State Archive

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