Autobiography of Dr. Thomas H Barton, the Self-Made Physician of Syracuse, Ohio : Including a History of the Fourth Regt; West Va; Vol; Inf'y (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Autobiography of Dr. Thomas H Barton, the Self-Made Physician of Syracuse, Ohio: Including a History of the Fourth Regt; West Va; Vol; Inf'y

In the year 1885 I first conceived the idea of writing a history of my life; but upon thinking over the subject, I had serious doubts as to whether such a work would justify the cost of publication, and, for a time, the project was laid aside. From that time, how ever, up to the latter part of 1887, the idea almost constantly in traded itself upon my mind, and I finally divulged my plans to my wife. But she was opposed to the undertaking, claiming that in consequence of advancing years and failing health I had better abandon the idea. I did not accept this advice, and the 15th of April, 1888, found me seated at my table, pen in hand, jotting down my in fant recollections. From that time to the present, I have spent the greater portion of my leisure hours in the preparation of this work.

I am aware that the public is well supplied with the biographies and autobiographies of our distinguished men, of the generals who have led our armies to victory, of the statesmen who have shaped the policy of the government, of eminent divines, poets, moralists, historians, philosophers, lawyers, legislators, even of criminals, who have spent their lives in solitary confinement, or perished on the scaffold. But the common or ordinary men, those who have failed to reach the summit of fame have not come to the front and given their experience in the battle of life. Such is the design of the author. It will be mv object in the present work to portray, in plain and concise language, the struggles of a lifetime.

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