Excerpt from Claremont War History: April, 1861, to April, 1865; With Sketches of New-Hampshire Regiments, and a Biographical Notice of Each Claremont Soldier, Etc In preparing a book like this for the press there are many difficulties and embarrassments to be overcome. Where so many men are concerned who were influenced by similar motives of patriotism or reward, and experienced like hardships in battle, in camp, and in hospital, it is difficult to say much in praise of the acts of one without seeming to do injustice to others. It has been the desire of the author to do exact justice to all who took their lives in their hands, turned their backs upon families, friends, and home comforts, and for love of country and her institutions and laws, went forth to encounter all the dangers and hardships incident to the life of a soldier in time of war. If he has failed in this it has been for want of facts connected with many - notices of whom are brief - for the reason that themselves or friends neglected frequent appeals to furnish him with such material as it was impossible to obtain from other sources, and not on account of any feeling of partiality on his part. It has been the author's aim to withhold any encomiums of his own, and let each man's record speak for him. 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.