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Excerpt from The Union Indian Brigade in the Civil War
In my Diaries of daily happenings, I took down a synopsis of the most important events that came under my notice, and if I did not participate in the event, I found some officer or soldier who did, and took down his account of what he saw, and before the close of the war I had ao cumulated a good deal of material, a large part of which was lost in the hurried preparation for the evacuation of Fort Smith.
In reporting the speeches or addresses of officers or leaders in war councils or on occasions of receptions or celebrations, if I did not hear the address in every case, I saw some officer or soldier who did hear it and took down the principal points as he remembered them.
In these addresses the speaker nearly always gave a summary of the principal features of a campaign just closed, or what was proposed to be accomplished in the campaign which was planned, thus giving a good view of the situa tion as it then appeared to him from all the information he was able to secure.
I have also used the official reports and correspond ence published by the Government to verify as far as practicable all that I have written in the work.
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