Excerpt from Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U. S: Military Academy, From 1802 to 1867, Rev. With a Supplement Continuing the Register of Graduates to January 1, 1879
After many years of persevering toil I present to my brother Graduates of the Military Academy this Record of their services, honorable to themselves, giving world-renown to their Alma Mater, and claiming for their country a place in the first rank of military nations. Every source of information, official and private, has been exhausted to make this work accurate and complete. Archives have been ransacked, tons of manuscripts examined, letters by thousands written, and interrogatories almost countless put wherever a hope of gleaning any information at all reliable existed. Doubtless many errors will be found, but in a work of this magnitude and character, where positive data are often unattainable, mistakes are unavoidable; but with free access to the records of the War Department and Military Academy, a voluminous correspondence with graduates and their friends, and a personal acquaintance of more than thirty years with the movements and operations of the Army, I have by untiring industry collected and condensed in these volumes as faithful summaries of the services of the eleves of the Military Academy as I believe any single individual could accomplish. To avoid errors as far as practicable, the etat de service of each living loyal graduate was submitted to him for correction before being incorporated in this work. A large majority promptly responded, but I regret that many replied too late to change their records before being sent to the printer.
The History of the Military Academy is too large a subject to be compressed within the preface to these volumes; but I cannot forbear dwelling a little upon the value of this noble institution to the country, and the cheap defense secured to the nation through the admirable instruction there given.
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