Excerpt from With the Light Guns in 61-65: Reminiscences of Eleven Arkansas, Missouri and Texas Light Batteries, in the Civil War The accompanying hastily written sketch outlining the career of his old companies and battallion, is made at the request of old comrades. It is written in the spirit that influenced the action at the time of occurrence, and is the best a failing memory can do; it will serve until a better account can be prepared, wholly or by amendment. It is merely a jotting down of names, facts and incidents as recalled while writing, with few memoranda or persons to consult. It makes no pretension to literary merit. Some occurrences are probably stated out of chronological order, and the rolls are defective by omission of names, partial or total. Ten thousand things omitted are ineffaceably impressed upon memory by the hard pounding endured - some important, others trivial or only amusing - but enough is given to show the character of the new military life in the "trans-Mississippi" country, in '61-5, to friends and descendants, who care to learn of what the participants endured, learned and saw. 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.