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Excerpt from The Story of the Twenty-First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, During the Civil War 1861-1865 Inexorable Time is chargeable with many of the apparent delays, and the procrastination common to our fallen nature may be held responsible for the rest. Details and incidents fade and become indistinct as the events with which they are identified recede into a remoter past. Delays that are really unavoidable for reasons that seem good and sufficient to the committee, appear inexcusable in the eyes of comrades to whom the conditions are unfamiliar and who look only to the desired reality of having the volume in hand. Such meagre data came in response to repeated appeals that the completion of the task has seemed at times almost hopeless. Undertaken as a labor of love, the work has proved far more exacting than was anticipated and has been full of discouragements which only those engaged in its fulfillment can appreciate. The committee has endeavored to make the book, so far as possible, strictly a regimental history, not a general criticism on the conduct of the war. Irrelevant matter has been largely excluded and references to other regiments and organizations have been usually made only when the situation could not otherwise be clearly set forth. 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.