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You will remember how urgent the boys were last summer for a history of the Regiment to be prepared. I resolved then to gratify them and am engaged on it now. I want you to aid me to the extent of giving me a detailed account of yourself--nativity, date of birth, former service, engagements that you were in that led up to your promotion, your service with us, your wounding and incidents accompanying it, your period of treatment in the Hospital, your civil record since, and be kind enough not to be at all modest in setting it all forth. I shall not use your. | War Experiences by Henry Coddington Meyer 1 War Experiences by Henry Coddington Meyer Project Gutenberg s Civil War Experiences by Henry Coddington Meyer 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 Civil War Experiences under Bayard Gregg Kilpatrick Custer Raulston and Newberry 1862 1863 1864 Author Henry Coddington Meyer Release Date July 28 2010 EBook 33280 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCES Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive American Libraries. Illustration Yours Truly Henry C. Meyer CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCES War Experiences by Henry Coddington Meyer UNDER 2 BAYARD GREGG KILPATRICK CUSTER RAULSTON AND NEWBERRY 1862 1863 1864 BY HENRY C. MEYER CAPTAIN 24TH NEW YORK CAVALRY BREVET-MAJOR NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS PRIVATELY PRINTED NEW YORK 1911 THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS G. P. PUTNAM S SONS NEW YORK INTRODUCTION During December 1895 I received a letter from General Walter C. Newberry of Chicago who during the Civil War commanded the 24th New York Cavalry. In this the General wrote MY DEAR MAJOR MEYER You will remember how urgent the boys were last summer for a history of the Regiment to be prepared. I resolved then to gratify them and am engaged on it now. I want you to aid me to the extent of giving me a detailed account of yourself--nativity date of birth former service engagements that you were in that led up to your promotion your service with us your wounding and incidents accompanying it your period of treatment in the Hospital your civil record since and be kind enough not to be at all modest in setting it all forth. I shall not use your language neither shall I give .