Excerpt from Camp Fire Sparks For several years, often without the least provocation, I have been in the habit of reciting my army poems and singing my army songs whenever I could corral a squad of my old comrades yet possessing vitality enough to survive the affliction. So far I have escaped with my life, and with but few bruises, for which I am truly grateful to the kind providence which has stood by me. Often after reciting some of the crude offspring of my somewhat erratic brain, I have been besieged by comrades who desired to secure copies of them, and on innumerable occasions I have been urged to group them together in a little book, so that all might secure them. Yielding to these many importunities, I have selected a few that I regard as the best of my soldier poems and songs, and I now send them forth under the title "Camp Fire Sparks." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.