"The first volume [is] a compilation of war reports ... introduced by the brief histories written by the regiment's adjutant, Henry H. Lyman, and the regiment's surgeon, Dr. Algernon S. Coe. [The second] volume is a compilation of articles, speeches, papers and other items written by the veterans themselves along with contemporary items from the Oswego newspapers and other first hand accounts of ... some of the actions the regiment participated in by officers outside the regiment"--Introduction to vol. 2.