Excerpt from History of the Fourteenth Ohio Regiment, Vol. 1: From the Beginning of the War in 1861 to Its Close in 1865

It was suggested by a worthy comrade at our last annual reunion, to designate one of our number to write up the history of our old command, to be read to such of the comrades as shall have the good pleasure of meeting together and talk over some of the hardships and privations endured by them as they went forth at the bidding of their country to battle for the right and to assist in preserving and handing down to future generations one of the best governments that the sun ever shone upon. But it would be idle for me to attempt anything more than a mere approximation of the most important points in the history of a command that bore so important a part in the great struggle through which our country was compelled to pass.

Be assured, my comrades, I have not undertaken this work without many misgivings as to my fitness to do ample justice to the magnitude of the work before me.

We must boar in mind, that after the lapse of sixteen years since we laid aside the garb of the soldier and assumed that of the civilian, many and great are the changes that have taken place.

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