Karl Bacon (31 page)

May 14, 1902

Mr. Henry Mills Alden

Harper Brothers Publishing Company

331 Pearl Street

New York, New York

Dear Sir,

The manuscript before you is entirely the work of my father, Michael Gabriel Palmer. Shortly before his death almost one year past, when he knew his time was near, he entrusted the work to my care. “Do with it what you will, dear,” he said. “Perhaps others will learn of God’s everlasting faithfulness to me, for I certainly was not faithful to Him.” Then, in spite of obvious physical pain, he raised himself to lean against the headboard, and with his hazel eyes lively and gleaming, he said, “And perhaps a printer will find some redeeming quality in it and you may reap a small profit.”

Throughout the last three decades of my father’s life, his business flourished and he became one of the wealthiest men in town, yet to the hundreds who attended his memorial and filled the church to overflowing, his standing in the community was not what drew them. First and foremost he was known as a man of sincerity, humility, generosity, and integrity, a servant to his church, his country, and his fellow man, always ready to forgive any slight, for as he often said, “I have been forgiven much and am a debtor to Divine mercy.” He was buried beside his beloved Jessie Anne in Hillside Cemetery. We wept tears of sadness then but now view eternity all the more fondly because both Mama and Papa are there.

My father’s original handwritten manuscript was passed from family to family and read over and over by his children and grandchildren. Many pages became frayed and torn. At my own expense I contracted a local clerk to typewrite four copies of the original, one for each of my two brothers, one for myself, and the fourth which you see before you. As you may surmise from this brief letter, my motive in forwarding my father’s story to you is not to reap financial reward, but to make it available throughout the length and breadth of this great land, that others may learn and profit from it, as we, his grateful children, have.

The favor of a response is requested. Correspondence may be addressed to: Palmer & Wehlmann Co., Naugatuck, Conn. If in the negative, please return the manuscript at your convenience.

With warmest wishes and regards,

ZONDERVAN

An Eye for Glory
Copyright © 2011 by Karl Bacon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bacon, Karl A.
       An eye for glory : the Civil War chronicles of a citizen soldier / Karl A. Bacon.
           p. cm.
       ISBN 978-0-310-32202-3
      1. United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Fiction. 2. Soldiers – United States – Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.A3532E94 2011
813’.6–dc22                                              2010044402

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