From time to time I have related incidents of the Civil War and of my activities after the War, and numerous friends have been good enough to suggest their compilation in book form.

Inasmuch as the book is for private circulation only - among friends - its readers will, I am sure, be lenient in their judgment of both its defects and the necessary frequent intrusion of the first person.

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