Excerpt from A Famous Battery and Its Campaigns, 1861-64: The Career of Corporal James Tanner, in War and in Peace, Early Days in the Black Hills, With Some Account of Capt. Jack Crawford, the Poet Scout IN presenting these memoirs to the public my aim is simply a plain, unvarnished tale to tell of the gallant deeds of a'battery which, to use the words of the official report of the adjutant-general of the State of New York (vol. I, page 169, served during the war with as bright a record as any in the whole Army, and, incidentally, to correct some erroneous statements and. Reports in the light of the fuller information now attainable regarding the tremendous events of the memorable epoch in our Nation's history to which they relate. 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.