Excerpt from A History of the Tenth Regiment, Vt. Vols: With Biographical Sketches of Nearly Every Officer Who Ever Belonged to the Regiment, and Many of the Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, and a Complete Roster of All the Officers and Men Connected With It In 1870 the author of this volume published a History of the Tenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, based upon personal observation, his own and other private diaries, with such public and official sources of information as were at his command. For this revised edition, in addition to the above, the large mass of material contained in the Official Records of Union and Confederate Armies, later general and special histories of the war, and all other accumulated sources of information, so far as they bear, directly or indirectly, upon the campaigns and battles of which any description has been undertaken, have been carefully studied and compared. Hitherto but little has been written or understood about the battle of the Monocacy; much that has been written on the battle of Cedar Creek is misleading and inaccurate; While the vast importance of the battle of Sailors Creek has been overshadowed by the swiftly succeeding and culminating event at Appomattox. It is humbly hoped that the story of these three engagements, each of which has gained some well merited distinctions for the Union arms, will afford at least a larger knowledge, both of those who participated in them and of the importance and magnificence of their results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.