Excerpt from The Braintree Soldiers Memorial
The following record was compiled to be read at the dedication of the Braintree Soldiers" Monument, June 17, 1874.
The compiler has aimed to obtain the full names of the soldiers and of their parents, and to give an accurate account of the term, places, and character of their service; but such thoroughness has, in many cases, been impossible of attainment.
Some of the men were only temporary residents of Braintree at the time of their enlistment, and left no clew to the discovery of any relatives who could furnish information concerning their careers. A very few were substitutes furnished by recruiting brokers of Boston. And of those who were born or long resident in the town previous to their service, it has often been difficult to procure any facts with regard to their families, or any particulars of their army life, other than those supplied in the somewhat scanty public records.
Amid such difficulties it will not be counted strange if omissions of matters worthy of historical preservation should occur in some of the biographies, although much pains has been taken to give the fullest practicable account of each individual"s military experience, and the somewhat uncertain and untrustworthy recollections of friends and comrades have, in all possible instances, been compared with and corrected by official documents.
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