Excerpt from Life With the Forty-Ninth Massachusetts Volunteers

The Forty-ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers' sprang from Berkshire. This, their record, is written for Berkshire readers. If it shall, in after years, enable my comrades to recall the events and some of the emotions of our sol dier-life, if it shall tend to unite us in sympa thy, if it shall present to our friends a fuller view of our deeds and experiences, and bring out more vividly the merits of our fallen brave, I shall be satisfied.

Writing it has been to me a labor of love. I have written fully and earnestly of the principles underlying this struggle, otherwise, I have con fined my pen to our regimental life as it came within my observation and experience. It would be sad to believe those principles were no part of that life.

My chief regret is, that fuller data did not enable me to do justice to all our dead.

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