Excerpt from History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865, Vol. 1: Personal Records and Reminiscences, the Story of the Battery From Its Organization to the Present Time
Compiling a history of a volunteer organization nearly forty years after its inception, when many of its members have passed through the "gates ajar" and the others are scattered throughout the country, must necessarily be an arduous undertaking, and without the hearty co-operation of those within reach, an absolute impossibility.
The historian, believing that the record of the Battery was worth preserving in imperishable shape, determined to do all that was possible to make the history as perfect as circumstances would allow. It was his desire that the story of the Battery should be told by its members as nearly as possible in their own words. To obtain this result he has written hundreds of letters, traveled thousands of miles, interviewed many of the surviving comrades and the descendants of those who have passed from the earth-life, in order that this history may be a valued possession through succeeding generations.
The historian called to his assistance a staff of writers and artists, to whom he tenders his sincere acknowledgments, and especially to John De Morgan, who has performed the onerous duties of editor so satisfactorily. Mr. De Morgan was well qualified for the undertaking, both by education and instinct. Educated in an English university, he made history his chief study, and became associated with some of the most brilliant literary and political thinkers of Europe. He espoused the cause of the Union during the War of the Rebellion, and has written largely on the subject on both sides of the Atlantic. In recent years he visited the battlefields of the South and became especially conversant with those with which the First Connecticut Light Battery was so closely identified.
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