Excerpt from The High Private, Vol. 1 of 3: With a Full and Exciting History of the New York Volunteers But now the hand of fate is on the curtain, And gives the scene to light. The drumming up of recruits was commenced, and by the middle of December about eight hundred men enlisted for better or for worse, as they say in the marriage ceremony, and were sent down to Fort Hamilton to fat on bread and pork - with soft planks for a bed and icy ground to drill on. 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.