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Title: Shoulder-Straps
A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862

Author: Henry Morford

Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29583]

Language: English

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SHOULDER-STRAPS

By

Henry Morford

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T.B. PETERSON & BROS.

PHILADELPHIA.

SHOULDER-STRAPS.

A

NOVEL

OF

NEW YORK AND THE ARMY,

1862.

BY HENRY MORFORD.

PHILADELPHIA:

T.B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,

306 CHESTNUT STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by

T.B. PETERSON & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,

in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO

DR. R. SHELTON MACKENZIE,

WHO

HAS ALREADY RECEIVED SO MANY DEDICATIONS,

THAT THEY HAVE BECOME

AN OLD, OLD STORY,--

THIS VOLUME IS

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED

BY

HIS GRATEFUL FRIEND AND CO-LABORER,

THE AUTHOR.

NEW YORK CITY, JULY, 1863.

PREFACE.

Several months have necessarily elapsed since the commencement of this
narration. Within that time many and rapid changes have occurred, both
in national situation and in private character. As a consequence, there
may be several words, in earlier portions of the story, that would not
have been written a few months later. The writer has preferred not to
make any changes in original expression, but to set down, instead, in
references, the dates at which certain portions of the work were
written. In one instance important assistance has been derived from a
writer of ability and much military experience; and that assistance is
thankfully acknowledged in a foot-note to one of the appropriate
chapters. Some readers may be disappointed not to find a work more
extensively military, under such a title and at this time; but the aim
of the writer, while giv