Excerpt from The Anson Guards: Company C, Fourteenth Regiment, North Carolina Volunteers, 1861-1865<br><br>Words, dead words, but faintly describe the active scenes and stirring life in the sixties the war between the States in which the Anson Guards participated, but words are our only medium to portray the boy soldiers' doings; their joys, their sorrows, their hardships and eu durance of those days now passed near and quite a half century. The readers will pardon imperfections of style ahd omissions, for the subject is too great to be compassed in the brief history we are writing.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.