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Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary. Lemuel Abijah Abbott
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isbn 4064066052669
Автор произведения Lemuel Abijah Abbott
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But some who write war history unfamiliar with such experiences, can never know of the inspiration and strength that comes to one in command of any part of an assaulting column of grandly brave, undaunted men, or what it is to feel that he is the very point of the wedge of his part of an assaulting column which is perhaps the first to cleave the enemy's line, and that he is conscientiously doing without any thought of shirking whatever he finds before him to do because it isn't his nature to be otherwise.
Finally, what decided the Author to publish this diary now at once, old age being upon him, was to try and correct false history in connection with the first assault at Sheridan's battle of Winchester, Va., Sept. 19, 1864. Besides this, he was requested to publish his personal observations, in July, 1908, just before leaving Washington, D. C. of every battle he was in during the Civil War by the Librarian of the War Department. He stated that as regular army officers were trained in such work their accounts of such battles would not only be of great help to future historians, but better than from most any other source.
The Author.
Washington, D. C., January 1, 1908.
ABBREVIATIONS.
Besides the usual abbreviations of States and months, and those commonly used for dispatch in writing and economy of space, the following are made use of in this work:—
Adjt. | Adjutant |
A. G. | Adjutant General |
A. A. G. | Assistant Adjutant General |
Brig.-Gen. | Brigadier General |
Capt. | Captain |
Col. | Colonel |
Corp. | Corporal |
d. | Died |
Div. | Division |
Lieut. | Lieutenant |
Lieut. Col. | Lieutenant Colonel |
Lieut. Gen. | Lieutenant General |
Maj. Gen. | Major General |
Priv. | Private |
Q. M. D. | Quartermaster's Department |
Regt. | Regiment |
res. | Resides |
R. Q. M. | Regimental Quartermaster |
Sergt. | Sergeant |
U. S. C. I. | United States Colored Infantry |
U. S. C. T. | United States Colored Troops |
wid. | Widow |
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