Autobiography of a Veteran: 1807-1893 (Classic Reprint)

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At the request of my wife and family I begin to-day, Sunday, the 15th January 1893, to dictate my memoirs. I shall incorporate with them historical events in which I had a part, or which passed under my eyes. Until my eightieth year I read without glasses, but gradually my sight has failed and I am almost blind, so my wife will be my secretary. I shall dictate and recount - she will write. We shall make use of the letters I regularly wrote to her during the campaigns of 1859, 1860 and 1866; and also of some hastily-written notes, jotted down, chiefly at her request, between 1870-1885, of impressions and thoughts, of facts witnessed by me, and details about the celebrated men who were my contemporaries.

The work will not, I think, be easy; as having never thought of transmitting to posterity any account of my own times, and still less of my own life, I never collected or arranged my numerous records or the documents bearing upon them.

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