Excerpt from A Condensed History of the 56th Regiment: New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry; Which Was a Part of the Organization Knows as the "Tenth Lgion" In the Civil War, 1861-1865; Together With a Register or Roster of All the Members of the Regiment, and the War Record of Each Member as Recorded in the A Organization of the Tenth Legion by Charles H. Van Wyck, Congress man - His Appointment and Commission as Colonel - Camp Van Wyck - Life in Camp - Captain A. Van Horne Ellis the Regimental Instructor - Health of Men Fairly Good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.