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Title: Adventures and Reminiscences of a Volunteer
A Drummer Boy from Maine

Author: George T. Ulmer

Release Date: May 4, 2010 [EBook #32246]

Language: English

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Geo. T. Ulmer

Feb. 1892]

Adventures and Reminiscences
of a
Volunteer,

or
A Drummer Boy from Maine

BY
GEO. T. ULMER,
COMPANY H, 8TH MAINE VOLUNTEERS.

Dedicated to the Grand Army Republic.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1892,
by GEO. T. ULMER, in the office of the Librarian
of Congress, at Washington D. C.

PREFACE.

In submitting this little book the author does not attempt to edit a
history of the rebellion, nor does he assume to be correct in the date of
events to a day. He does not hope or expect to make a hero of himself by
writing it, for he was far from doing anything heroic, believing, as he
does, that most of the heroes of the war were killed. Perhaps the WRITING
of this book may stamp him a hero, and for his audacity in so doing some
one may kill him. But he intends to clothe his little work in homely,
rugged, commonplace language. Not striving to make it a work of literary
merit, only a truthful account of an unimportant career and experience in
the army. It may, perhaps, be interesting to some of his comrades, who
recollect the incidents or recall similar events that happened to
themselves, and thereby serve the purpose of introducing one of the
youngest soldiers and a comrade of that greatest and most noble of all
organizations, the Grand Army of the Republic.

Respectfully,

GEORGE T. ULMER.

[Illustration: _The Memorable Bombardment of Fort Sumter._]

Bombardment of Fort Sumter. This was the beginning and the first sound of
actual war which ins