Joseph Henry Edwards epub Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Vol. 1 of 2: General United States Army When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the last three decades, in which I played a part, without entering too fully into the history of these years, and at the same time without giv ing to my own acts an unmerited prominence. To what extent I have overcome this difficulty I must leave the reader to judge. In offering this record, penned by my own hand, of the events of my life, and of my participation in our great struggle for national existence, human liberty, and political equality, I make no preten sion to literary merit; the importance of the sub jcet-matter of my narrative is my only claim on the reader's attention. Respectfully dedicating this work to my com rades in arms during the War of the Rebellion, I leave it as a heritage to my children, and as a source of information for the future historian. 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.