Excerpt from Family Desertion: Five Hundred and Seventy-Four Deserters and Their Families, Family Desertion and Non-Support LawsThe value of these records, therefore, is that they reveal the characteristics and circumstances of five hundred and seventy four families who were compelled, by reason of the desertion of the husband and father, to ask for help of some sort.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.