Excerpt from Manual of the Civil War and Key to the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies This book is respectfully submitted to the public as a convenient reference to the battles and engagements of the Civil War, Enlistments from the different States, divisions and subdivisions of the Union Army, Officers in the order of their rank and the principles, objects, etc., of the Grand Army of the Republic and Kindred Societies. It is also intended to serve as a companion or key to the picture entitled "The Easel Monument Souvenir." Its place is on the center table, a ready answer to all questions suggested by a study of said picture and affording, at the same time, an appropriate means for preserving the Record of Service, also a copy of the Honorable Discharge of the soldier with whose name the said picture is engrossed, and in this way hand the same down to posterity. 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.