Excerpt from The Melrose Memorial: The Annals of Melrose, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, in the Great Rebellion of 1861-65
It has been the aim of the writer of the following pages to gather such facts and incidents pertaining to the action of our town, and of its citizens, in the late Rebellion, as may be interesting to us and to those who shall occupy our places hereafter. With what interest would any of us read a similar collection of facts concerning the action of our native town in the Revolutionary war, or the war of 1812; the sacrifices it made, the heroes it furnished, and the martyrs to justice and liberty then offered upon their country"s altar.
Soldiers" monuments are appropriate memorials; and it is well that the memory of our dead heroes should be thus embalmed. May scores of monumental piles be yet reared throughout the length and breadth of the land, reminding us and future generations of their bravery, of their virtues, and of their patriotism. And where such monument has or has not been raised, it would be a desirable fact, and an interesting matter of history, if each town, or city, would have a published record of the items of its individual action in the late war. Future generations would turn the leaves of such annals with pleasure and gratitude.
Two years and a half had passed away after the close of the great contest between Right and Wrong, before the task of gathering the material for this volume was commenced. Had it been undertaken sooner, or begun and continued during the progress of the war, the labor would have been easier, and, probably, some facts which have been forgotten, and the whirl of time has confused, might have been recorded.
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