Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of My Military Life, Vol. 1 of 2 My records are the result of memory, largely aided by voluminous documents, jour nals, and copious notes on the spot; and they have also been assisted by communications, carefully sifted. 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.