Excerpt from Trail of the 61st: A History of the 61st Field Artillery Brigade During the World War, 1917-1919 A few days after the memorandum was issued I was sent to the Camp Hospital Where I was held for 28 days, but the brigade did not leave for home, as I had feared it would, for about two weeks after I had been released from the hospital, and I therefore had the opportunity of doing some effective work after my illness, though not enough to gather all of the information I desired. Had I not been held in the hospital so long I would have been able, I believe, to have secured all of the material desired. 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.