Thanks in behalf of all concerned is hereby extended to such as have given their kindly aid to the task of collecting data and statistics for this work. Particularly are such thanks due to Colonel Philo B. Buckingham, of New Haven, for free and generous access accorded to papers and writings of his own, having originally a Similar historic object in view, the carry ing out of which was suddenly interrupted, some four years since, by a paralytic shock by which,froin a condition of ro bust health that gallant soldier was rendered-a helpless inva lid.