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PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF THE WAR OF 1861

As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment,
New York Volunteer Infantry

by

CHARLES A. FULLER

Prepared from data found in letters, written at the time from the field
to the people at home.







[Illustration: Charles A. Fuller

Late of the 61st N. Y. V. Inf.]



News Job Printing House, Sherburne, N. Y.
1906




PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS


March 1st, 1861, I started for Cleveland, Ohio, to enter the law office
of Boardman & Ingersoll as a law student. I was in that city at the time
of the inauguration of President Lincoln.

After Sumpter was fired on I was anxious to enlist and go to the front
with the "Cleveland Grays," but trouble with my eyes induced me to
postpone my enlistment. After the President issued his call for 300,000
additional troops, I learned that Lieut