Excerpt from History of the Seventeenth Virginia Infantry
It is that the friends of the Seventeenth Virginia Regiment may have a reliable chronicle of many of the ups and downs through which it passed during the four years' War, that the ensuing pages have been laid open for publication.
Upon its imperfections in a literary point of view I shall not comment, but of those so far more competent to such work, I ask that the intentions of the heart may be remembered, and their criticisms tempered with mercy.
The Regimental Muster Roll attached is as comprehensive as it has been practicable to make it, though still incomplete, which is a source of regret, for the desire is to omit none who deserve mention. How many familiar faces arise before the mind's eye associated with scenes of unfailing interest as we review that catalogue! A smile involuntarily comes as we glance upon some name in separably associated with a merry-hearted, fun-loving temperament; at the next perhaps, the heart is bowed in sadness that but the name and memory alone remain of one so gifted in all the attributes of noble manhood.
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