Excerpt from A Memorial of Giles F. Ward, Late First Lieut.: Twelfth N. Y. Cavalry Now that the strange sad history of sacri fice and blood is ended, our nationality pre served, and we at peace; our first and most sacred duty is to gather up memorials of the heroic dead, and perpetuate the memory of their virtues. Every community throughout the loyal States, I had almost said every household, has been represented in this noble army of martyrs. This Church has precious names to present to a redeemed and grateful country; names that posterity, heir to the future their blood has made, will not suffer to die. Of one of these I propose to Speak, con strained not less by a sense of duty to the living than to the dead; of giles F. Ward, Jr., one of the youngest and most heroic in the volunteer army of the United States. He was born on the twenty-second of February, 1845, and died before his twentieth birthday, on the twenty-eighth of January, 1865, hav ing served his country as First Lieutenant in the ninety-second regiment, new-york State Volunteers; next as Adjutant of the regi ment; and then as aid-de-camp upon the staff Of General Palmer; and finally as First Lieutenant in the Twelfth N ew-york Cavalry. 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.