Preface

A FEW of these stories and poems have already appeared in the Naval and Military Record, and I take this opportunity of thanking the proprietors for giving me permission to publish them.
All these stories and poems are founded on fact, and the one which gave me the greatest pleasure to write is "Mac." It is pleasant to think that my humble efforts may be the means of perpetuating, in a small way, the memory of a gallant man. But the pleasure is lessened by the sorrowful thought that the career which promised much, was so early terminated.
Many of my former comrades will probably recognise the hero of the poem under the partially veiled pseudonym. I feel sure that those who do so, will fully endorse all I have said of him.

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