History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
HISTORY OF THE Fifty-Fourth Regiment OF iWajSjsaci^uisettsj Volunteer ^nlantvv, 1863-1865. BY LUIS F. EMILIO. BOSTON: THE BOSTON BOOK COMPANY. 1891. s ^6 T//e old flag never touched the groiDid, hoys.' Sergt. William H. Carney, of Co. C With the flag he saved at ^VAGNE^. A.3?f?t^ 9 J <..^ Copyright^ 1891, ,/ Luis F. Emilio. John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. PREFACE. THIS record has grown out of the researches and material gathered for the preparation of papers rea'd before the officers of the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry and other veteran associations at reunions in recent years, as well as newspaper articles. It is founded uppn the compiler's daily record of events, his letters of the period, contemporaneous records, and the very full journal of Lieut. John Ritchie, as well as a briefer one of Capt. Lewis Reed. To both these officers grateful acknowledgments are rendered. Thanks are also due to Lieut.-Cols. H. N. Hooker and George Pope for valuable records. Sergt-Major John H. Wilson, and Sergts. William H. Carney and Charles W. Lenox have furnished important particulars. Mention should be made of Capt. VI PREFACE. William C. Manning, Twenty-third U. S. Infantry, whose field notes were most thankfully received. Throughout the compilation Gen. A. S. Hartwell, Col. N. P. Hallowell, and Capt. Charles C. Soule, all of the Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Infantry, have manifested unflagging interest. L. F. E. No. 6 East 58th Street, New York City, Dec. 22, 1890. PUBLISHBKS' PREFACE. TT is twenty-six years since our Civil War ended, — nearly the span of a generation of men.
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