Excerpt from Memorial of Henry Ware Hall, Adjutant, 51st Regiment, Illinois Infantry VolunteersOf strife made him a soldier, not from inclination, but from principle. I am certain of this, for I have looked straight into his steady eye, and seen it there: I have marked it all in his calm speech and his still resolution.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.