L’ENVOI.
My task is done. My story is told. I have derived pleasure as well as pain and grief from the recital; pleasure in going back over the dreary waste of years to the morning of life, and dwelling in memory amid the scenes of my early manhood; pain that I can not do justice to all who, at the call of country, periled their young lives for home and the right; grief for the heroic dead, who sleep in unmarked graves wherever duty lead to danger and death. Their matchless courage and devotion earned undying fame.
“Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine;
Yet, one I would select from that proud throng”:
Because he was my bedfellow, and I loved him as a brother; faithful in the discharge of every duty, clean, brave, and true—William Nicholson.
Transcriber’s Notes:
Some typographical errors have been corrected.
| Page | Printed | Correction | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|
| [58] | Leutenant | Lieutenant | Lieutenant Baylor of the Rangers |
| [59] | brough | brought | a message was brought to |
| [95] | enlisments | enlistments | 1200 enlistments charged with |
| [97] | month | months | for several months |
| [99] | Alamaba | Alabama | Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi |