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 regiment noted for straggling). With roars of laughter the boys shouldered their muskets and knapsacks for another hard day's march through the pine barrens.

Lieutenant-colonel Clark is remembered as a staunch advocate of temperance, whose interests were ever for the men.

Major Clemmer, as a genial, bluff soldier, whose songs often enlivened the dreariness of the camp or bivouac; and Quartermaster Gibbs, as a man of prompt execution, who expected equal promptness from others. Many anecdotes and incidents of them could be narrated by the page, but I remember that the introduction to the volume is not the place for sketches of this kind; and I fear that I have already introduced much that does not strictly belong to this part of the book. I beg pardon for any seeming trespass in this direction.

This introduction, written in the midst of other pressing duties, with frequent interruptions, now most affectionately inscribes this volume to every member of the Twenty-ninth regiment of Ohio Veteran volunteer infantry; to their wives and their children.

I am happy to enjoy this privilege of saying a few words in Dr. SeCheverell's book to my old comrades. My prayer is that God will bless every surviving member of the regiment, with their families, also the widows and orphans of deceased members, and that when the battle of life is over, we may wear the victor's crown in heaven.

, M.D., D.D., Late Chaplain Twenty-ninth regiment, O. V. V. I.

, July 18, 1882.