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Title: Personal Recollections of the Civil War
By One Who Took Part in It as a Private Soldier in the
21st Volunteer Regiment of Infantry from Massachusetts

Author: James Madison Stone

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Language: English

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Personal Recollections
of the Civil War

BY ONE WHO TOOK PART IN IT AS A PRIVATE
SOLDIER IN THE 21ST VOLUNTEER REGIMENT
OF INFANTRY FROM MASSACHUSETTS

BY
JAMES MADISON STONE

BOSTON, MASS., MDCCCCXVIII
PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR

Copyright, 1918
By JAMES MADISON STONE

All rights reserved

To the memory of the soldiers of the 21st Regiment, and to their loyal
descendants, living or dead, this volume is affectionately dedicated by

THE AUTHOR.

Boston, 1918.

PREFACE

This volume does not claim to be a tactical, or strategic history of the
campaigns of which it treats; it aims rather to be a narrative of the
every-day life and experience of the private soldier in camp and
field--how he lived, how he marched, how he fought and how he suffered. No
sooner had some of the volunteers reached the front, and been subjected to
the hardships and exposures of army life, than they fell sick, were sent
to the hospital and were discharged without passing through any serious
campaigns. Others were wounded early, were disabled and were never able to
return to their regiments. The more fortunate passed sound and unscathed
through battle after battle and campaign after campaign through the whole
war. Three years of active campaigning and a year in the hospital was the
allotment of the writer, who thus was in the service from the beginning to
the end of the war.

Whatever the merits or demerits of this work may be, the impressions and
the compositio