Excerpt from The Third New Hampshire and All About It An Introduction, or, as it is generally termed, The Author's Preface, usually proves to be an excuse for writing the book at all. Practically he says: Ah! Please excuse me; but I am about to inflict upon you a species of pain, under the guise of pleasure. Having spent so much time, and thought, and labor, upon this work, it does not seem fitting that I should say, You are about to be pained; go slow! Now that the end of the Introduction seems so near, the mind of the writer is moving forward to the point where he will be obliged to begin the work itself; and he is almost overwhelmed with another set of conundrums like these: Shall the history begin with the Third New Hampshire organized and mustered in, or will he take up the fragments (companies) and carefully place them together, and then set them on their march? Shall I mention a few other events pre ceding the birth of the Third New Hampshire, and then gradually lead the reader up to the birth of the regiment? Having come to a sudden determination as to what method to pursue, risking much, the Introduction ends right here, and possibly you heave a deep sigh of relief, and at once plunge into the History itself. 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.