Excerpt from The Quaker Soldiers: A True Story of the War for Our Union IN the long roll Of names made immortal by the war recently closed, there are few around which more interest clusters than those Of the brothers ketcham. Not that their services were more arduous, or their deaths more heroic, than were those Of thousands of others in the Federal ranks, but that they were representatives Of a Society which for two centuries has opposed war, strife and bloodshed - the Society Of Friends and that their names will live as The Fighting Quakers. 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.