L3: as H AVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAK ES MIGHT , AN D IN THAT ‘ W — rum LET US DARE t o Do ova DUTY As E UN DERSTAN D rr. A bralzam Linc ln in an addres in Coo er Institute Februa 27 o , s p , ry F O R E WO R D . com iler e l The p of this Record , ar y in 1 868 , published a volume hr of t ee hundred and eighty pages entitled Brown University in - the Civil War. In it were included biographies of twenty one of the graduates and non -graduates of the University who died in war l - that , and a so the record of the two hundred and ninety four of the graduates and non-graduates who served in the Union army or navy in the Civil War period . Brown A lumni Month In the ly for April, 1 91 5 , attention was called to a noteworthy gift received by the Library of the Univer sit y from Mr . Bertram Smith , of Berkeley , California (class of was l c It a typewritten compi ation , overing one hundred pages , containing references to Brown University graduates and ’ non-graduates in the Ofia al Records of the Union and Confederate — A rmies in the Civil War that monumental work comprising one lu hundred and thirty vo mes , published under the direction of suc cessive Secretaries of War until its completion under Secretary as Elihu Root in 1901 . It w a happy thought that led Mr . Smith l x l 1 2 (even with the aid of the inva uable inde vo ume of 24 pages , recording every name in these one hundred and thirty volumes) l to make the extended search which his p an required . As Mr . Smith remarked in his introduction , the material thus secured added little to what was already known concerning the services of - d Brown University graduates and non gra uates in the Civil War . Its great value was in calling attention to quite a large number of VI FOREWORD . Brown men who had a part in that war on the Union or Confed h ad et ate side, but whose services not found mention in our University war records . The list thus compiled contained one hundred a nd ninety a seven names . Of these , seventeen h d no other connection with the University than as the recipients of honorary degrees . Major General Burnside was one of the seventeen; but of course such recognition of honorable service was not sufficient to give him a place among Brown University graduates or non -graduates in the Civil War . Of the one hundred and eighty other persons men c tioned by Mr . Smith thirty had no military servi e in that war, and accordingly their names had no place in a record of such was l service . One of the thirty Francis Way and , who , in the O cialRecords o the Union and Con ederate A rmies I fi f f (Volume V , is Series III , page mentioned as one of the incorporators of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers ; but mention of a call to such honorable service even would not entitle the ven - et able err president of the University to a place in a record among those who were enrolled in the military service during the Civil War . ‘ h n O a al Reco T e . in this list taken from the fi rds, there were - - eighty three names of graduates and non graduates of Brown who w m Brown ere mentioned in the memorial volu e , University in the ivil War l d 1 C , pub ishe in 868 ; so that these eighty-three names were not a new contribution to the roll of Brown University grad - and who w the ates non graduates ere in military service , on one - , l 1 861 1 8 side or the other in the batt e years 65 . But even with the elimination of these names there were still left sixty-seven O cial Records names , taken from the fi , which are not recorded in the v ar the roll prepared at the close of Ci il W . FOREWORD VII m s Other na e also , not appearing in that roll , but belonging to it , the writer of these lines had obtained from various sources since the publication of Brown University in tlxe Civil War; and ’ Mr . Smith s discovery became now the suggestion of bringing together the names of these men preparatory to a search for the f m a record o their ilit ry service . Such a list was made with the assistance of the keeper of the Graduate Records of the Univer sit and - y; the seventy three names thus secured , added to Mr . ' - m s . Smith s sixty seven , made a totalof one hundred and forty na e The task of obtaining the Civil War record of these men was d ff divide between Mr . Smith and myself , he to make an e ort to a obt in the war service of the men whose names he had secured , and I to make an efiort to ascertain the war service of those whose s dimenl name were on my list . After some time , because of the Mr. ties encountered in obtaining the information desired , Smith relinquished his endeavor , and I took upon myself the whole of the work . w The task was not an easy one . Many whose names ere in o l l the tw ists had died , not a few long ago , indeed so ong ago that little information concerning their part in the war could be se cured . while of some no evidence was ascertainable that at any time they h ad a part in the w ar on either side . This difliculty - was greatest in case of those graduates or non graduates who resided in the South . Accordingly , I have not found it possible to make the Civil War service of the graduates and non-graduates of the University l has as complete as I desired . In the imit that been reached , as l however , suflicient information w discovered to increase the ro l of Brown University men in the Civil War from two hundred and - 8 8 d and ninety four , as recorded in 1 6 , to four hun red seventeen , VIII FOREWORD - and the number of those who died in the service from twenty one - to thirty nine . In the ne w Record are included the names of the graduates and non-graduates of the University who served in the Confeder B own Universit in tlie Civil War was ate army . The roll in r y the record of the men of the University whose service in that war had x r r been pro libertate et pro Reipuolieee integritate . But a g eat change had been manifested in the intervening years . The bitterness of a - ll w war the w r period , also of the period fo o ing the for some time , had now given place to a spirit of love and devotion to the one ar . common country , which happily the w left to us Especially - was this change made to appear at the time of the Spanish Amer War. e ican War , and more recently in the great World Gen ral E . P . Alexander , who fired the guns at Gettysburg which opened upon the Union lines preceding what is commonly known as ’ Pickett s Charge , used the following words in the introduction to H Milita Memories o a Con ederate 1902 : The his ! ry f f , published in world has not stood still in the years since we took up arms for — what we deemed our most invaluable right that of self govern o ment . We n w enjoy the rare privilege of seeing what we fought for in the retrospect . It no longer seems desirable . It would no w prove only a curse . We have good cause to thank God for our escape from it . not alone for ourselves , but for that of the l ” who e country and even of the world . With such words on record , and many others from a similar source that have long l l been fami iar . the time certain y had come for a recognition of w w the l the change hich the years had rought since Civi War . d Accor ingly , it seemed desirable that search should be made for the record of our graduates and non -graduates who served in the 1 mth n Fro e i scription on the tablet in Manning Hall by Profe ssor Joh n n ln L . Li co . FOREWORD I! C d r a m onfe e ate r y or navy . The Civil War records in the South ern States have not been as carefully preserved as were those in the Union States . Such as remain are now in the War Depart en shin a e but m t at Wa gton , nd these , as required , have been us d ; am s I e pecially indebted to many willing helpers in the South , who h ave rendered valuable service when search was requested. At a meeting of the corporation of the University , October 1 5 1 919 , , the writer of these lines had the pleas ure of reporting to ss t e his a ociates h results of these later labors . In so doing he stated that this new Civil War Record is still incomplete because of the dificulty of obtaining any information concerning Civil War service at a date so remote from that great crisis in our al nation history .