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Excerpt from Vermont in the Civil War, Vol. 2: A History of the Part Taken by the Vermont Soldiers and Sailors in the War for the Union, 1861-5 When volume I of this history was issued, the work of preparation of volume II was well advanced toward comple tion. But the effect of the publication of the first volume was to delay the publication of the second; for it awakened many of the Vermont veterans, seemingly for the first time, to the fact that a careful history of the Vermont troops was in preparation. As a consequence, documents, diaries, war letters and reminiscences, for which I had long been asking in vain, poured in upon me. Conflicting accounts of many important matters were received. Questions which I had considered settled were reopened and had to be inves tigated and decided anew. So much important additional material was thus received, that the manuscript for this volume had to be wholly rearranged and most of it rewritten. While this occasioned an amount of delay which can have been regretted by no one as much as by myself, it has cer tainly added enough to the interest and value, as well as to the size of the work, to compensate the subscribers for their waiting. When all was done, the bulk of the completed work proved to so largely exceed the limits of size upon which the contracts with the publishers and subscribers were based, that a third revision and extensive condensation of the work became imperative; and after all I have been obliged to omit some matters, including extracts from official reports and orders and a list of native Vermonters who served in other than Vermont organizations, which I had planned to include in an appendix to this volume. If there should seem to be a demand for these, they may possibly be published at some future day in a supplementary volume. 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.