Excerpt from History of the Fifty-Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers I hope I may be able to give the outlines, at least, of a picture of army life, for, though our experience was not a long one, it was varied. We saw almost every variety of soldier's life. We had an experience of the crowded transport, of monotonous camp life, of the exhausting march, of the terrible battle, of dishearten ing defeat, and of exulting victory. We knew what it was to have our blood thrill at the sound of inspiring music: we knew what it was to have the blood chill at Sights of mortal agony. We saw a portion of army life in all its aspects, except as prisoners of war. We lost but two men as prisoners, and one of them reached home before the rest of us: the other was never heard of after he was captured. 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.