Excerpt from Vermont in the Great Rebellion: Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches, Etc
A popular writer has said, "Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. Of these obscure heroes, philosophers and martyrs, tho greater part will never be known till the hour when many that were great shall be small, and the small great; but of others, the world's knowledge may be said to sleep; their lives and characters lie hidden from nations in the annals that record them."
In presenting to the public a book of this size, it would be but folly to claim that it gives anything like a full history of the noble and self-sacrificing acts and gallant conduct of the Vermont troops, during the four years that they were engaged in tho War of the Rebellion. Many of their most noteworthy deeds will never have a public record. They must forever remain tho sacred property of those who enacted them. Hundreds of noble men, entitled to tho highest meed of praise, and the greatest gratitude of their fellow-statesmen, will be counted with the unnumbered host whose unnoticed sufferings and toils, in field and camp, form always the material out of which military glory comes to tho few.
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