The Record of Andover: During the Rebellion (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Record of Andover: During the Rebellion A few words seem necessary regarding the origin and purpose of the manuscript volume of which this is an abridgment. The records show that during the late Rebellion the Town made several ineffectual efforts to keep a Register of such of its citizens as entered the military or naval service of the United States, and who made a part of the several quotas which the Town was called upon to furnish. It was in 1870, five years after the Rebellion had been suppressed, that the people of the Town proposed to erect, by voluntary subscriptions, a Memorial Hall, in honor of its sons who had sacrificed their lives in the war. The enterprise having been successfully inaugurated, I was chosen by my associates on the Building Committee to prepare a roll of the honored dead, to be placed under the corner-stone. The time for preparation was very brief, but, with such material as was then at hand, a list of forty-six names was furnished. Subsequent investigation proved this list to be incorrect, in that it embraced the names of six men who, at the time of their decease, were serving on the quotas of other towns. 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.