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Excerpt from The "Ulster Guard" And the War of the Rebellion: Embracing a History of the Early Organization of the Regiment; Its Three Months' Service; Its Reorganization and Subsequent Service; A Chronological Record of Every March, Place of Encampment or Bivouac, With Distances Marched
The members of the Old Twentieth, and the thousands of its civilian friends, have felt that its services entitled it to a historical record; and, so long ago as 1862, Mr. Archibald Russell proposed that the Ulster County Historical Society should undertake such a work, and his proposition was adopted [see page but never carried into effect.
I am fully conscious of the many imperfections of this work. AS the advance sheets come from the press, I see much that I would be glad if I could have spent more time and care upon. Fre quent and often protracted interruptions have not only delayed the publication, but have forced me to devote the heat of summer to labor which I hoped to have completed during the preceding winter; and latterly the cry for Copy from my publisher, and my desire to have this book issued before I meet my old comrades face to face again, at our annual Re union on the 17th of this month, and again have to apologize for its non-appearance, have prevented that degree of care which such a work should command at the hands of its author. But.
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