Excerpt from History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regiment: From August 22nd, 1861, to September 30th, 1864 This volume contains the history of the One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment. When I re-entered the military service, in the fall of 1861, I became possessed of two hobbies; one, that of writing the history of my regiment, and the other, to have a monument erected to the memory of those who might fall in action, or die of wounds or disease, which I hope to be able to carry out some time in the future. The former has been accomplished in the following pages; while nearly enough money has been raised to build the latter. This work needs no apology. It contains no wonderful exploit; but a simple narrative of the campaigns of the regiment, which has been written without passion or prejudice, and with a sincere desire to do justice to all. No doubt, many other regiments performed more brilliant service; but none bore more faithful allegiance to the great cause of the Constitution and the Union. In the qualities that make good soldiers, - discipline, respect for superiors, perfection in drill, cleanliness, steadiness under fire, freedom from pillage, and manly endurance under all the trying vicissitudes of war - the men of the 104th Pennsylvania regiment had no superiors. With this preface, the work is given to the public. 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.