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Title: Civil War Experiences
under Bayard, Gregg, Kilpatrick, Custer, Raulston, and
Newberry, 1862, 1863, 1864

Author: Henry Coddington Meyer

Release Date: July 28, 2010 [EBook #33280]

Language: English

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Henry C. Meyer]

CIVIL WAR
EXPERIENCES

UNDER

BAYARD, GREGG, KILPATRICK, CUSTER
RAULSTON, AND NEWBERRY

1862, 1863, 1864

BY

HENRY C. MEYER

CAPTAIN 24TH NEW YORK CAVALRY
BREVET-MAJOR NEW YORK VOLUNTEERS

_PRIVATELY PRINTED_

NEW YORK
1911

THE KNICKERBOCKER PRESS

(G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS)

NEW YORK

INTRODUCTION

During December, 1895, I received a letter from General Walter C.
Newberry, of Chicago, who during the Civil War commanded the 24th New
York Cavalry. In this the General wrote:

"MY DEAR MAJOR MEYER:

"You will remember how urgent the boys were last summer for a
history of the Regiment to be prepared. I resolved then to gratify
them and am engaged on it now. I want you to aid me to the extent
of giving me a detailed account of yourself--nativity, date of
birth, former service, engagements that you were in that led up to
your promotion, your service with us, your wounding and incidents
accompanying it, your period of treatment in the Hospital, your
civil record since, and be kind enough not to be at all modest in
setting it all forth. I shall not use your language, neither shall
I give you credit for the biography, and you may drop all modesty
with me and give it to me in full. You may have kept something of a
diary or there may be some old letters that you have written which
will give me some record by dates of the Regiment's service. I want
it all."

In 1896 I complied with this request to