Excerpt from The Tenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: 1861-1864; A Western Massachusetts Regiment
There must be something peculiar in the man who is not ready to maintain that his own home is the very best possible - in like manner there must be something lacking in the Union veteran who does not hold his regiment the bravest and truest that ever wore the blue, who does not narrate the services of that organization so regularly, eloquently and persistently that listeners wonder that any member came home alive and what other bodies could have been doing while the - st or - th was putting down the Rebellion.
While the survivors of the Tenth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry do not claim that their regiment was Primus inter pares (First among equals), they do maintain that there was none any better and that its rank and file were as truly representative of the real American spirit as any that followed the Flag for the maintenance of the Union.
Though the day is far spent, and the great majority of the men who constituted the membership of the Tenth are today sleeping the sleep that knows no waking, yet the surviving scant fifth of the aggregate, deeming it desirable that the recital of their own and their deceased comrades" services should have permanent lodgment by the side of similar stories of other regiments, at this late day, almost half a century after enlistment, avail themselves of the munificent offer of the Commonwealth and the generous contributions of friends, and add this volume to the array of similar narratives of loyalty, endurance and sacrifice.
The body of the work tells the story of the Regiment as a whole; the Roster recites the brief summary of more than twelve hundred men, every one as dear as life itself to some home, more or less distant. Just as far as care and perseverance could take the inquirer, so far have those concerned in the volume carried the investigations concerning those who, so long ago, drank with them from the same canteen and with them bivouacked on the old camp ground. To those who in any way contributed to the fullness of this Roster thanks from many directions are due and they are hereby rendered.
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