Excerpt from History of the 27th Regiment N. Y. Vols
The official accounts of battles are all wonderfully alike, dealing with bodies and masses of men, and not with individual hopes, aspirations and fears. We read about marching and flanking and enfilading; but when we go behind these terms, and ask what the individual soldier in the ranks is thinking or doing or suffering, the story is too light to be included in an official report, and too unimportant for the dignity of general history; and yet, it is this unwritten history of the war that gives any true estimate of the price that was paid to save our nation. This history is designed to give more of individual and personal experience; not claiming that this regiment acted the most important part in the late war, but to show that its members offered themselves a willing sacrifice in the service of their country, and at no time did they withhold the best they had to give. Years have elapsed since we left the "lines and tented fields," but time cannot erase from memory recollections of those eventful days in which the Twenty-Seventh New York, by its heroism and zeal, helped to preserve the unity of the best and freest government ever established by man. The fact that they were actors in the great struggle, and a constituent element of the grandest army the world ever saw, engaged in the grand work of saving the Citadel of Freedom, makes them take a noteworthy pride in offering to history the following record, which is made up chiefly from private diaries, personal experience and general orders, as these tend to show the esteem in which the regiment was held by commanding officers.
Our trust in the future of the country rests in the bravery, integrity and virtue of the men who fought for it. They have brought back the old flag, "its white as bright as angels" robes, and its stars God"s stars, as truly as are the stars in the canopy of heaven."
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