Civil War Infantry History Of The Fifth Massachusetts Battery Organized Oct 3 1861 Mustered Out June 12 1865

Author : United States Army
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364615539
Total Pages : 1068 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery written by United States Army and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of the Fifth Massachusetts Battery: Organized October 3, 1861, Mustered Out June 12, 1865 In submitting these pages to the general public, made doubly and more profoundly critical by new opportuni ties for observation, furnished by the recent war with Spain, we are aware that our most appreciative readers will be found among the daily diminishing ranks of our comrades and their circle of friends whose memories reach back to the period of which it treats, - forty years ago. It is not without some feeling of complacence that we have reviewed these records of the endurance of hard ships, which, in the inexperience of early youth, we accepted as the inevitable, and carelessly turned into jest as the easiest and quickest way of getting over the mis fortunes of war, and we have closely followed the trials to which were submitted those innate impulses of courage inspired by patriotism, that found us all ready to mount at the call of Boots and Saddles, and, harnessing our impatience to the wheels of the grumbling cannon and caissons, to seek the field wherever, whenever and how soever we were directed. To our aid in this work we have called the sister of a soldier of the 18th Massachusetts Regiment Infantry, who has brought to her task that which is considered indispensable in the historian of a distant period, the familiarized knowledge of many years. Her impres 'sions do not all come at second hand. They are the product of memories transplanted from a living past, to assist in the selection of scenes in camp, on the march. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.