A. M. J. Davis HISTORY OF WORCESTER IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION. BY ABIJAH P. MARVIN, AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY OF WINCHENDON." "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here; but it can never forget what NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. WORCESTER: PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 45 13531, 6.3 6.37 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, BY ABIJAH P. MARVIN, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. EXPLANATORY NOTE. THIS History was first published in 1870. It was well received by the press, and by the subscribers generally; but unfortunately a number of errors in relation to members of Company D, of the Fifteenth Regiment, excited the just indignation of the soldiers, in which the members of other regiments participated to some extent; and, though the fault did not belong to the author, yet the sale of the work was, none the less, diminished. A word of explanation will be permitted. The rolls of the soldiers' names were made up with great care from the annual reports of the Adjutant-General of the State. After sixty pages of fine print had been stereotyped, it was found that the State was preparing the work known as the "Massachusetts Volunteers." To perfect the "Roll of Honor" I obtained liberty to compare it with the names in the two volumes of the "Volunteers," then in sheets and about ready for publication. The errors were so numerous that the whole list of sixty pages, small type, had to be thrown away, and a new one made to take its place. This was supposed to be correct, as it was official. But it was found, after the History was issued, that there were several gross and shameful errors in the roll of Company D, Fifteenth Regiment. For example, a soldier who had fallen in battle was marked as a deserter, and a deserter had the credit of giving his life for his country. Such mistakes deserved the reproach of the soldiers; but the reproach and the loss fell upon me, while it justly belonged to the State. But there was no help for it, though the proved accuracy of this work, with the above exception, has made it an authority. From that day to this it has been my intention to issue a corrected edition, but various causes have hindered until the present time. In this edition, the two pages-550 and 551-have been stereotyped anew, as they could not be corrected in the plates, and will be found iii |