staff and line officers, together with their record and that of every
non-commissioned officer and enlisted man in the regiment, from the commencement
to the close of its service, will be found in the subjoined roster. The roster
has been carefully transcribed from the official records, supplemented by such
other information as it was possible to obtain from reliable sources, and the
compiler hopes that it will, in the main, be found correct. In the following
pages, the compiler has endeavored to condense the history of the regiment into
a description of the most conspicuous features of its service. With the wealth
of material at his command, included in the official reports extending over the
long period of its service, it would have a much less arduous task to have
written an extended history than to condense it into the narrow limits rendered
necessary by the magnitude of the work and the giving to each organization an
approximately equal amount of space.
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