Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the Eleventh New Jersey Volunteers, From Its Organization to Appomattox: To Which Is Added Experiences of Prison Life and Sketches of Individual Members
Have realized the importance of keeping a full and methodical record of the happenings to himself and the regiment during those trying days from '62 to '65. His contributions have been voluminous and, in general, have well stood the test of investiga tion and comparison as to accuracy. One of the most important things in preparing a record of this kind is accuracy as to time and date. In some of the regimental histories that I have read, these seem to have been ignored for the sake of continuity of narrative. I may not in all cases be correct, but I have tried to be as nearly so as possible. A number of incidents have been sent me which, while they could have been made very readable and no doubt con tained some elements of truth, were found to be so variant from well-known facts that I was compelled to throw them aside. The comrades have been honest, but the mists of years have obscured their memories and the recollections of the war have become so jumbled that the incidents of different periods seem to them as parts of one. I have also tried to avoid anything like bombast I know that the Eleventh tried to do its duty that its contempo raries gave it credit for being brave and gallant, but it did not do it all - there were a few other troops engaged in the various battles in which it fought that rendered very efficient service.
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