I do not do this for self gratification, but to please my child ren, my grand-children, possibly my great-grand-children, and many friends whom I dearly love. We all know, as the years go by, the story of this great battle, so often told in our days, will grow in interest, to those who may come after us, and that my experience may not die with me, I will endeavor to tell what I know. What I saw, and of the little help I was enabled to give to the wounded and dying.r in that momentous struggle.