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Title: History of Company E of the Sixth Minnesota Regiment of Volunteer Infantry

Author: Alfred J. Hill
Charles J. Stees

Release Date: August 11, 2008 [EBook #26276]

Language: English

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HISTORY
OF
COMPANY E
OF THE
SIXTH MINNESOTA REGIMENT
OF VOLUNTEER INFANTRY.

BY

ALFRED J. HILL.

WITH AN APPENDIX BY

CAPT. CHARLES J. STEES.

PUBLISHED BY
PROF. T. H. LEWIS.

St. Paul, Minn.:
PIONEER PRESS CO.
1899.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1899, by
PROF. T. H. LEWIS,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

All Rights Reserved.

PREFACE.

It will be remembered by those connected with the military service that
towards the end of the late Civil War, there went through the camps and
barracks of the volunteer soldiers agents of publishing houses busily
engaged in procuring material for "company histories," and still more
anxiously soliciting subscriptions for the same. These histories were
mere broadsides or charts, giving the name and rank of each man, with a
few other personal facts, compiled from the muster rolls, and in
addition an abstract of campaign movements, battles, and so forth; all
the information being brought up to date of subscription. Of course as
permanent and final records such publications would be failures, there
being no "next" in which to "conclude" their stories.

While the Sixth Minnesota Infantry Regiment lay at New Orleans, one of
the visitations described occurred to it (this being a very successful
one), and thereupon a member of Company E proposed to a comrade the
getting up of something of the kind among them