s these
facts:

First--That Lieut. Haskell entered the service in July, 1861, as First
Lieutenant of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry, and in June, 1862, became an
Aide-de-Camp upon the Staff of Brigadier General John Gibbon, and was
serving as such at the time he wrote his "Narrative" of the Battle of
Gettysburg. On February 9, 1864, Haskell was commissioned Colonel of the
36th Wisconsin Regiment, which at his request was assigned to the First
Brigade, Second Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac. The Division
was commanded by Gen. Gibbon, Gen. Hancock commanding the Corps. In the
advance of Gibbon's Division at the Battle of Cold Harbor, against a
strongly intrenched position, Col. Henry McKeen, who commanded the First
Brigade, was killed. Colonel Haskell succeeded to the command, and he,
too, fell mortally wounded under the heavy artillery and musketry fire,
against which his Brigade advanced. Haskell's record as a soldier of the
Civil War is, therefore, an enviable one; but as a writer of events of the
war he was absurd, reckless and unreliable.

Second--The manuscript alleged to have been prepared by Lieut. Haskell, as
stated by him, "At the Headquarters, second Corps D'Armee, Army of the
Potomac, near Harper's Ferry, July 16, 1863," was sent to his brother, who
printed it about fifteen years later in a pamphlet of 72 pages for private
circulation.

Third--The book was reprinted in 1898 as part of the History of the Class
of 1854, Dartmouth College, in honor of Colonel Haskell's memory, but with
certain omissions that severely reflected upon the Eleventh Corps, Gen.
Sickles and President Lincoln, which are explained in a foot-note by Capt.
Daniel Hall, a classmate of Haskell's, who was an Aide upon the Staff of
Gen. O. O. Howard, and who prepared the Haskell story for republication.

Fourth--The pamphlet published in 1878, by Haskell's family for private
circulation, contained 72 pages; the costly volume published in 1908,
under the auspices of the Commandery of Massachusetts, Loyal Legion of
the United States, prepared by Captain Daniel Hall, an Aide upon the Staff
of Gen. Howard, Commander of the Eleventh Corps, with the official
endorsement of "Chas. Hunt, Captain, U. S. V., Committee on Publication"
is a book of 94 pages; therefore, apparently containing much more matter
than was originally published by the Haskell family in 1878.

The charge of cowardice on the part of the Philadelphia Brigade, purported