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Names of persons mentioned in this book. 1. Samson, Pelatial, Hezekiah, Benjamin, Edward (Ned), my brothers. 2. Archabald, Barnes. Coleman. Were boys under sixteen years of age belonging to the second companh of Minnesota sharpshooters and were attached to our regiment as Co. L. Archabald was not fifteen years old, small of his age, looked like a pretty little dark-eyed girl. He was so young and small that he had to enlist as a drummer. But he refused to drum and demanded his rifle, proving himself to be an excellent marksman, he had his way. These boys served their full time all were wounded but all got safely home at least. They lived near Lake Minnetonka and I had some acquaintance with them before the war. Truer steel was never yet put into men. 3. Standish - Decker - recruits who enlisted at the same time I did. Standish was a good boy twenty years old son of a Methodist Preacher - his family of the Old Massachusetts stock. He himself was born in Massachusetts. When the war broke out he was a student air(?) Hamline University. So also were Phillip Hamlin and Charles Berdan students and sons of Methodist preachers. Hamlin was killed at Gettysburg. So far as I know Berdan is living yet. He was twice wounded. There were, perhaps, a dozen more students of the university - among the Seargent Wright with whom I came most in contact and most admired. I think it can safely be said that all these students gave a good account of themselves. 4. "Jarve" Jarvis Chaffee a young man who in 1859 had his right arm and scalp torn off in my fathers threshing machine. It was several years before the sore scalp healed. Meanwhile it would inflame whenever he tried to study. We kept him in our home the greater part of the time for two years. I became much attached to him and from letters I wrote him I have been able to supplement much of what would have been lost with my Diary which I lost July 30, 1862 at the Battle of White Oak swamps. 5. "Melissa," Melissa Bond a cousin of mine who had lived several years in our family. She was teaching in Indiana during the war.