Excerpt from Soldiers of Oakham, Massachusetts, in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812 and the Civil War The town of Oakham was fortunate in having during the most important periods of its early history clerks who kept full and clear records. It is not probable that those who made the records had any thought of their future value as historical docu ments. They made them complete that there might be no doubt about the responsibility of those who were chosen to public office; but in their effort to make everything plain, they left us very detailed information about the early history of the town. The records of the first forty - four years fill two large volumes, containing together seven hundred and ninety-one pages. The eight years of the Revolutionary War cover two hundred and four pages. Fortunately, also, during the one hundred and fifty years when the town documents were not safeguarded as they are to - day, not a page of any of the record books was lost or destroyed. 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.