The recollections of a drummer-boy

Served with the one hundred and fiftieth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers. The writer of Recollections of a drummer-boy wishes to say to the readers that he is writing no made up story or fictitious narrative, but is drawing upon his own personal experiences for all he has to say. He was a Drummer Boy in the Army of the Potomac, having been mustered in to the service in midsummer 1862 and mustered out with what remained of his regiment at the close of the war in 1865. Opposite to him , on the wall of his library, in which he is writing, hangs his "Discharge" framed in stout hickory, while before him, on his table are three little black books, all stained and soiled with exposure to wind and weather on many a long march-journals or diaries kept by him in camp and field- together with a bundle of old army letters written tot he folks at home.