Excerpt from Biography of Lieut. Col. Julius P. Garesche: Assistant Adjutant-General U. S. Army In introducing the Biography of my Father to his and my Mothers relatives, friends, and to others, I hope that I may be given a little allowance for my style, composition and plan, inasmuch as I am an inexperienced writer and this is my first, as it probably may be my last, literary undertaking. It is solely my devoted and admiring love for my sainted and noble Father which has impelled me, and my desire that his great name may be known even more widely and be perpetuated to a remote age, as also that his Life may be the means of doing good to men without distinction of creed; for he truly deserved the appellation which so many who knew him have given him - "the American Bayard, the American Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche." It had been the intention of Lieut. Col. Alex. J. Dallas, U. S. Army, a Catholic gentleman of great literary ability, to write a brief Memoir of him several years ago for insertion in some Catholic magazine or paper. 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."