. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . BOSTON:FRANKLIN PRESS : RAND, AVERY, & CO. 1883. PREFACE. t I iHE veterans of Chelsea who served in the First, the Thirty-fifth, and the Fortieth Regiments, have a right to ask whythis book precedes the record of their own memorable deeds. Inanswer, it may be said that its separate issue was not decidedupon until after a persistent effort had been made to unite withothers in the compilation of a complete military history of our cityduring the war.
. Reminiscences of military service in the Forty-third Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry, during the great Civil War, 1862-63 [electronic resource] . BOSTON:FRANKLIN PRESS : RAND, AVERY, & CO. 1883. PREFACE. t I iHE veterans of Chelsea who served in the First, the Thirty-fifth, and the Fortieth Regiments, have a right to ask whythis book precedes the record of their own memorable deeds. Inanswer, it may be said that its separate issue was not decidedupon until after a persistent effort had been made to unite withothers in the compilation of a complete military history of our cityduring the war. This was found to be, at present, effort, however, has resulted in the preparation by the variousinterested parties of a large part of the material for such a is still confidently hoped, that, before many years elapse, ourcommunity will be favored with its publication. There are, however, sufficient reasons why this history of theForty-third should be given to the public without the abridgmentto which it must have been subjected if bound with others. Theregiment was a fairly representative organization of the
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