Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Record of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment Ohio Infantry Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion
In letters to the undersigned, received many months ago, General Wildes thus writes: I am now engaged in writing the history of my own regiment, the r16th Ohio, of our own gallant first brigade, and intend making it sufii ciently cosmopolitan to include a general history of - our own campaign and a particular history of the first brigade, our own military family. If I could send you enough proof matter, or give you a general enough idea-of it in any other way, I would ask you to write an introduction. The 116th Ohio and the 34th Massachusetts served together in the same brigade in many of the decisive battles of the war, and were side by side during the whole of the last year. I can see a fitness in you of Massachusetts doing this for us of Ohio. You must see at once how much pleasure it would give our whole regiment to see the book introduced by one of their old comrades of the gallant 34th Massachu setts. What was thus lightly undertaken then, was ren dered a duty when information was afterwards received that the warm friend and gallant officer had been removed from earth's labors, his task but partially completed. It is an awful big job, continues the General, to do the work in a way that will not class it with the hundreds of useless.
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