PREFACE
When the Colonel assigned to me the task of writing a history of the regiment we were billeted at Arc-en-Barrois in the Haute Marne. Most of the work, therefore, was done at Arc and Malicorne, or, practically, under field conditions. One must admire all the more, then, the success of the artists, which overcame a lack of proper tools and working space. To Corporal Roos, Private Enroth, Corporal Schmidt, Musician Boyle, Corporal Tucker, Captain Dana, Captain Starbuck, and Private Everts the regiment is indebted for the majority of these lively souvenirs of campaigns and billets.
Tremearne of B and Downs of A were particularly useful in gathering statistics and material. Where statistics lack, or are not complete, it must be assumed that names and figures were either not furnished or could not be obtained.
The historian has thought it of interest to follow his own narrative with an appendix containing contributions by individual officers and men.
The whole, he ventures to hope, will constitute a pleasant record-necessarily imperfect, because of its brevity—of a very memorable experience.
Charles Wadsworth Camp.
