Published: Ross, OH:  Graphic Print, l898. 54 p.

Introduction

     A few words seem necessary to explain my purpose in writing what is hereinafter recorded. It was undertaken at the request of friends in the regiment, about six years ago in a series of articles in the Venice Graphic. These have been collected, revised and put into this form, with the belief that it might be cherished by the soldiers and friends of the 93rd as a truthful history of their struggles during the late rebellion. Although it may be brief, the reader must remember I have labored under great disadvantages; as what I have narrated happened a third of a century ago.
     A further motive emboldened me to the task. As far as my knowledge extends, there never has been a history of the regiment written. Should this incite some comrade with more ability than I to write a history of the regiment, I shall feel amply repaid for my labor. And here I may be permitted to say that, although a participant in the events of this history, still I have endeavored to write in a spirit of candor and good faith, and I leave it to the honest judgment of the reader as to how far or how well I have succeeded. While it is special as a history of the 93rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, it is general as to the delineation of campaigns, movements of troops, plans of battles, and the changes in brigades, divisions and corps and their commanders.
     It was never my ambition or expectation to write a book, but circumstances which I could not well resist forced me to the task. I may have erred in some particulars, but comrades, be lenient in your criticisms, remembering I had but very little data at hand and memory, at best, is treacherous.

Alfred Demoret
Ross, Ohio,  March 1st, 1898

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