Author: William P. Maxson
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-02-16
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780656723430
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Excerpt from Camp Fires of the Twenty-Third: Sketches of the Camp Life, Marches, and Battles of the Twenty-Third Regiment, N. Y. V., During the Term of Two Years in the Service of the United States We are a motley crew, we Of the Twenty-third. Farmers, mechan ics, merchants, clerks, students, doctors, lawyers, loungers - tall, medium, short - rich, middle, poor-thin, full, fat - good, bad, indite ferent. But what matters occupation, position, wealth, size, or stripe, when our country is at stake? Each and all had somewhere in the heart the germ Of patriotism, and could say, with a kindling eye, My country i My native land! So when the accumulating wrongs and aggressions of the slave oligarchy had culminated in the tragedy of Sumter, and the proud Old flag had been trodden down, we were aroused with indignation. Then the call, To arms rang through the land, and we rallied around the flag, and gave ourselves without stint to the nation. 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.