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Preface. I will inform the reader at the outset that this book is written to state facts, without being confined to exact dates and figures. Events that have made lasting impressions on my mind, stated as correctly as possible from memory, are narrated here without regard to the rules of fine writing. I never kept any notes of my life, therefore the stories may appear disconnected. When I tell you of an event it will be the truth as I remember it, regardless of how it may look in print. I want to avoid biography as I write, for the reason that biographies are so nicely worded that the reader often has to ask whom the narrator is giving a write-up. Notwithstanding I am often told that I ought to get a professional biographer to write my life, I have concluded to write it myself. When I read about the battles of the Rebellion, How Major A. T. Still charged on rebels with uplifted saber, urging his men to victory, I begin to doubt professional biographers, for I know there was not a saber drawn nor was there any yelling during a hard fight of two hours duration between thirty thousand combatants on each side. I remember also the reporters of the sixties, who never tried to write the truth, and could not if they wanted to, because at this time .
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
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