This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ... We requested General G. K. Warren to favor us with a statement of his views regarding the services of the Maryland Brigade, and in reply received the following complimentary tribute: Newport, R. I., Oclobtr 26, 1871. To Mr. J. W. Kikkley, Washington, D. C; Dear Sir: I have received your letter of the 21st instant, requesting me to prepare a statement, such as I "may know the Maryland Brigade to be worthy of," to annex to your Historical Record of those troops. Since the war my official duties as an engineer have so occupied me that I have not been able to complete the official report of my command's achievements, as I intend to, and am always hoping to get the time to do soon. The events through which we passed made a lasting impression on my mind, and it would take a book to tell all I know of the worth of the Maryland Brigade. I am very glad to hear that you are making one. The frequent loss of commanding officers by that brigade in the campaigns of 1864-'65 brought it particularly to my attention, and its constancy under all the difficulties and hardships made me regard it with affection as well as esteem. As a part of the combined First and Fifth Army Corps, it will always share in the common reputation; and this was a corps that never gave ground to the enemy, which marched and fought battles in every month but January from May, 1864, to May, 1865; which made all the extensions of the line of the Union army around Petersburg by contests with the enemy, from the place where the mine was sprung in the summer of 1864 to the capture of his extreme right on the White Oak road, at Five Forks, on April 1, 1865, and which finally stretched its unflinching lines across the path of retreat of the Army of Virginia at Appomattox. It should...