Excerpt from Record of the Service of the Forty-Fourth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia: In North Carolina August 1862 to May 1863 The Forty-fourth Massachusetts Regimental Association has been fortunate in one circumstance. The regiment was so largely made up of clerks and students who are now business or professional men in Boston, with common ties of residence and occupation as well as of army service, that the yearly meetings of the Association are more largely attended and more heartily enjoyed than are the reunions of regiments whose members have become scattered and estranged since the war. This cordial fellowship led, many years ago, to a wish for some permanent record of the service in which it had its origin. The first reunion of the Forty-fourth was held March 14, 1876. As early as the annual meeting held Feb. 5, 1879, the project of publishing a regimental history was discussed, and referred, with full powers, to an Historical Committee consisting of Charles C. Soule, Edward C. Johnson, Col. Francis L. Lee, Frank G. Webster, and James B. Gardner. At the annual meeting held Jan. 20, 1886, William Garrison Reed, Charles J. McIntire, Paul S. Yendell, John J. Wyeth, and Eben N. Hewins were added to this Committee. The original Committee selected James B. Gardner to collect material and edit the history. 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.