Lanterna Rally

Author: Gregory Mabry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780483692794

Excerpt from Recollections of a Recruit: An Official History of the Fifty-Fourth U. S. Infantry This modest attempt at recounting the his tory of our Regiment is far from the perfec tion we would wish it to possess. While the orders, dates and places have been carefully verified, we feel that the work is still lacking in the finish we should like to have given it. Actually written down in the rough, in less than a week, mostly while preparing in haste to leave Germany for A1nerica, we have not had the time to heap upon the work the care which such an undertaking would justify. But, in the main, we hope that we have set down the Regiment's accomplishments in a readable manner, breathing, if possible, some of the atmosphere peculiar to the doughboy into the situations recounted; thus making the history, we trust, more than the recital of a few dry facts. Comparatively speaking, we have employed but few names of individual Officers and men, feeling, as we do, that all shared in some de gree the attainments reached. Trained and led by Colonel Crowley through its entire exist ence, it is to be expected that the Regiment would bear some Of his characteristics. It has come to be more than locally famed in the A. E. F. For its energy, precision and ingenuity and those are the marks placed upon it by its Commanding Officer and worked out by thevarious members of the Official and enlisted personnel. In short, our reputation for aecom plishments in field or billet belongs to no one person or group of persons, but to the whole body. 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.