. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . reason of the hardships of war, thewounds received in battle and the increase of years beyears of labor and sorrow. Yet, if the dates which I have given you in thisattempted history, and the facts which I have so tamely,and sometimes inelegantly expressed, shall in recallingto your minds any of the sad or happy incidents of thesethree long years of your youth, valor and patriotism, bea source of any pleasure or profit to you, as you go on tojoin your comrades
. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . reason of the hardships of war, thewounds received in battle and the increase of years beyears of labor and sorrow. Yet, if the dates which I have given you in thisattempted history, and the facts which I have so tamely,and sometimes inelegantly expressed, shall in recallingto your minds any of the sad or happy incidents of thesethree long years of your youth, valor and patriotism, bea source of any pleasure or profit to you, as you go on tojoin your comrades who have answered the roll call onthe other shore, T shall be abundantly compensatedfor all the time and labor the writing of this unpreten-tious little volume has cost me. In conclusion, comrades, let us now and in thefuture, as in the day when our Regimental line meltedbefore the fiery breath of battle, take a look at our flag,the bonniest flag the sunlight of heaven ever kissed, andclose up our thinning ranks by dressing to the center tillthe last old patriot of the Thirty-seventh Indiana hasbeen called from time to Captain hezekiah shook, Co. d, Versailles, Ind. HISTORY OF CAPT. SHORT.
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