Lincoln's Body Guard; The Union Light Guard: The Seventh Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; 1863-1865 (Classic Reprint)

Lincoln's Body Guard; The Union Light Guard: The Seventh Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; 1863-1865 (Classic Reprint)
ISBN-10
1331218748
ISBN-13
9781331218746
Category
Reference
Pages
44
Language
English
Published
2015-07-12
Author
Robert W. McBride

Description

Excerpt from Lincoln's Body Guard; The Union Light Guard: The Seventh Independent Company of Ohio Volunteer Cavalry; 1863-1865 This booklet is not intended as a contribution to either literature or history. It is intended as a mere token of remembrance among comrades. As memory reaches back through the years, my heart turns to those comrades of mine who, in the midst of one of the most deadly conflicts the world has ever known, volunteered to go as soldiers on a special service, the nature of which none of them knew. They only knew that they were going in the service of their country, but they also knew that in that day, wherever men followed the old flag, death trod on the heels of duty. It seems to me that at that stage of the war, men who volunteered for an unknown and special service were entitled to as much credit as if they had volunteered in a forlorn hope. They went, expecting to face danger, and were disappointed when they were denied that chance. It has taken years to efface that disappointment and bring to them a tardy realization that their service was as honorable as if they had actually challenged death on the field of battle. 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.

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