In the preparation of the foregoing pages I have been actuated by a desire to place in convenient and permanent form the simple facts connected with the company’s modest service. We were not only the first from Washington county to respond to the president’s call for volunteers but were the first from all southeastern Ohio. Only 9 of the 220 companies of three months’ volunteers, accepted by the government antedated our enrollment (these were dated the 16th) and but 17 others bore even date with us.
I have attempted simply to state facts in as plain a way as possible that may be of value so far as they go to the future searcher in this pioneer service of the war. The work has taken considerable time and labor but it has been one of pleasure and I shall be more than repaid if it meets with the approval of my surviving comrades and the friends of Captain Buell and his pioneer company of patriotic volunteers.
JEWETT PALMER.
Marietta, O., April 22, 1911.
FOOTNOTE:
[1] Afterwards Colonel of the 33rd Ohio Infantry. Promoted to Brigadier General after the battle of Perryville. Killed at the battle of Stone river, Dec. 31st, 1862.
Transcriber’s Notes:
The one footnote has been moved to the end of the text and relabeled.