Historical Sketch of the Chatham Artillery - During the Confederate Struggle for Independence #234227

The loss of Confederate records, and of private journals kept during the recent war is severely felt in writing a history even as partial as this. Details soon pass from the recollection, and facts which, with all their surroundings, we supposed at the time were graven \with the point of a diamond upon the tablets of memory, are, after the lapse of a comparatively Short period, Often recalled with difficulty and uncer tainty.