Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artillery e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The loss of Confederate records, and of private journals kept during the recent war is severely felt in writing a history even as partial as this. Details soon pass from the recollection, and facts which, with all their surroundings, we supposed at the time were graven \with the point of a diamond upon the tablets of memory, are, after the lapse of a comparatively Short period, Often recalled with difficulty and uncer tainty.