Recollections of the Crimean Campaign and the Expedition to Kinburn in 1855: Including Also Sporting and Dramatic Incidents, in Connection With ... Canadian Lower Provinces (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from Recollections of the Crimean Campaign and the Expedition to Kinburn in 1855: Including Also Sporting and Dramatic Incidents, in Connection With Garrison Life in the Canadian Lower Provinces

I Feel an apology is necessary in giving to the Public a book which might seem to be only an autobiography of a person of no importance, having no excuse for being published except that it might perhaps be interesting to the author's own immediate relatives or friends. But I hope it can lay claim to being something more than that.

Its endeavor has been to bring before the reader scenes of half a century ago. Of the fiercely fought contest before Sebastopol that terminated the Crimean War, of which, of all Canadians then holding the Queen's Commission who took part, the writer is to-day, if not quite, at least almost the last survivor.

In addition, it aims to give a glimpse of social life in the garrison towns of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the early "fifties," of theatricals, and the elder Sothern's dramatic ventures in Halifax, as well as descriptions of hunts for big and small game, and fish and fishing in the wilds of these Provinces.

At the outset, when I decided to put the recollections of those days in print, I struggled earnestly to write them in the third person, and keep the pronoun "I" in the background. It proved a huge mistake, and was altogether more egotistical even than as now presented; but there being no other form I had perforce to adopt it.

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