Excerpt from History of the Ninth Mass; Battery: Recruited July, 1862; Mustered in Aug, 10, 1862; Mustered Out June 9, 1865, at the Close of the Rebellion

Comrades:

It is twenty-one years since we last stood in line together and were mustered out of the United States service. The thirty-four months that we had been together are indelibly recorded in our memories. Some of the battles are written in blood. The marches, that sometimes left us so weary that the bivouac blotted out all worth remembering; the months of dull camp life, in winter quarters; the weeks under shelter tents, facing the enemy, the hours of which were struck by the booming of cannon and the bursting of shell, and the minutes marked by the crack of rifles and zip of minies, too close to be pleasant; - all these are becoming more and more indistinct to us; but to some of us the twinges from wounds, rheumatism, fever and ague, or diseases that have become chronic, daily remind us that we were there.

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