tailieunhanh - The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer

In the lifetime of all who arrive at mature age, there comes a period when a strong desire is felt to know more of the past, especially to know more of those from whom we claim descent. Many find even their chief pleasure in searching among parish records and local histories for some knowledge of ancestors, who for a hundred or five hundred years have been sleeping in the grave. Long pilgrimages are made to the Old World for this purpose, and when the traveler discovers in the crowded church-yard a moss-covered, crumbling stone, which bears the name he seeks, he takes infinite pains to. | The Citizen-Soldier by John Beatty 1 The Citizen-Soldier by John Beatty The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Citizen-Soldier by John Beatty This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The Citizen-Soldier or Memoirs of a Volunteer Author John Beatty Release Date January 27 2007 EBook 20460 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CITIZEN-SOLDIER Produced by Suzanne Shell Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http THE CITIZEN-SOLDIER OR MEMOIRS OF A VOLUNTEER. BY The Citizen-Soldier by John Beatty JOHN BEATTY. 2 CINCINNATI WILSTACH BALDWIN CO. PUBLISHERS NOS. 141 AND 143 RACE STREET. 1879. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1879 by ELLEN B. HENDERSON In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. TO MY BROTHER MAJOR WILLIAM GURLEY BEATTY WHOSE GENEROUS SACRIFICE OF HIS OWN INCLINATION AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR AND FAITHFUL DEVOTION TO MY FAMILY AND BUSINESS ENABLED ME TO ENTER THE ARMY AND REMAIN THREE YEARS THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. INTRODUCTORY. In the lifetime of all who arrive at mature age there comes a period when a strong desire is felt to know more of the past especially to know more of those from whom we claim descent. Many find even their chief pleasure in searching among parish records and local histories for some knowledge of ancestors who for a hundred or five hundred years have been sleeping in the grave. Long pilgrimages are made to the Old World for this purpose and when the traveler discovers in the crowded church-yard a moss-covered crumbling stone which bears the name he seeks he takes infinite pains to decipher the half-obliterated epitaph and finds in this often what he regards as ample remuneration for