Ebook A Narrative of the Formation and Services of the Eleventh Massachusetts Volunteers, From April 15, 1861, to July 14, 1865

Our little volume, though not pretentious, has outgrown its original limits. The intention of the compiler was not to attempt to write a historic narrative of the four years' service in the field of the grand old "Eleventh," but simply to place in the hands of the surviving members and their friends a brief sketch of its birth, organization, muster-in, and its arrival at the "front," thus connecting with Capt. Henry G. Blake's "Three Years in the Army of the Potomac," with a few notes of such changes as occurred in our commanding officers, a list of the battles in which the regiment participated, and as correct a list of the surviving members as could be obtained from the roll of our present Veteran Association roll-book, with a reference to the time and place of holding our annual reunions, together with the names of the officers who served on each of those occasions.