Excerpt from The Story of Company a Twenty-Fifth Regiment Mass: Vols, in the War of the Rebellion
This Story is written from the standpoint of a private soldier, for soldiers - the surviving members of Company A. It is an attempt to give, somewhat in detail, the everyday life of soldiers in active service and under canvas walls, with incidents of camp, march, and bivouac. The "Story" may possess but little merit, yet it may please the "Boys" for whom it was written.
No march is described in which the writer did not participate, no battle in which he did not take a hand, in his humble position; and it is claimed that the story is a true one. The language is sometimes rough, but it should be remembered that it was a rough life we were leading. If an occasional strong expression is found in these pages I can only say that "our army swore terribly in Flanders"; and I have tried to describe the soldier as I saw him - as I knew him.
I am indebted to my friend, Franklin P. Rice, for the elegant typographical appearance of the book. It is issued from his private press, and is entirely the work of his own hands.
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