Excerpt from A History of the Forty-Fourth Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, 1861-1865 At the district school in this little village Ellsworth received his first knowledge of books, rules Of discipline and his fellows. He is said to have been a favorite with his master, manly, a leader amongst and loved by his school mates (whom he used to drill with sticks), quick to learn, apt Of memory and young as he was, he had a love of such books as told of war and the lives and deeds of men great in war. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.