Excerpt from Shot and Shell: The Third Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment in the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Camps, Forts, Batteries, Garrisons, Marches, Shirmished, Sieges, Battles, and Victories; Also, the Roll of Honor and Roll of the Regiment Though our record was demanded immediately upon the close of our service, the nature of the work, involving the collection of the material, the leisure and disposition of authorship, and the responsibility of publication, made it impracticable till the Veterans had united in an Association. No pains have been spared to make our record accurate. We give only summary views of the conflict, and pass by necessity to the particular work given to our hands. It must suffice us to give our regi mental experiences strange and momentous enough for one volume, since the execution of the heaviest siege work of the war fell to our lot, and our guns were engaged from the everglades of Florida to the Capital of the Con federacy. 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.