. Reminiscences of the Civil War . Reminiscences of the Civil War BY- W. B. \\fHITTEMORE PUTNAM, CONN. PREFACE. The following story was written by a soldier for thepurpose of preserving a record of the time he served inthe great struggle of the Civil War between the North andthe South. It tells of what he saw and did as a boy also tells of camp life, with its discipline, and its tells of the night and day marches, and of the hardshipsand the intense suffering that the soldiers had to writer tells of the battles as he saw them, and the parthe took in them, battles b
. Reminiscences of the Civil War . Reminiscences of the Civil War BY- W. B. \\fHITTEMORE PUTNAM, CONN. PREFACE. The following story was written by a soldier for thepurpose of preserving a record of the time he served inthe great struggle of the Civil War between the North andthe South. It tells of what he saw and did as a boy also tells of camp life, with its discipline, and its tells of the night and day marches, and of the hardshipsand the intense suffering that the soldiers had to writer tells of the battles as he saw them, and the parthe took in them, battles bravely fought to keep Old Glorywaving over all United States. The story gives a veryclear outline of the writers enlistment until he was dis-charged from the United States Armv. Printed by Raymond R. Evans, Putnam, Conn. 1911. :3^. William B- Whittemore (Photo taken 1910) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries CHAPTER I Where and When I Enlisted. Camp Life,and Our First March. Abraham Lincoln said in his Gettysberg address onthe battlefield, The world may forget what we say here,but they can never forget what they did here. The bravemen living and dead who fought here have consecrated itfar beyond our power. However, it is impossible for theworld to know the story of each mans hfe in that greatCivil War, so I wish to leave my children and grand-childrenan account of my life, that they may know that William was a loyal, true-hearted soldier in those self-sacrificing days. But before I tell the story of my life onthe battlefield let me relate a few facts concerning myearly life. I was born in Thompson, Ct., in the section now calledMonahansett District in Putnam, on the twenty-fifthreminiscencesofc00whit
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