Two Military Works.

This article presents information on the book "History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry. Third Paper." by Charles George Gordon. The first and second papers were pamphlets, of like print and size of page, and told the story of the regiment, from its organization in the spring of 1861. It would be well if the history of every regiment that saw actual service in the war could be written, but there were very few that deserved a permanent record so well as, and it is doubtful if there was one that deserved it better than the Second Massachusetts Infantry. Those who know anything of the Second Massachusetts will turn to it with lively interest, and will not lay it down till they have read to the end; but they seem doomed to a good deal of disappointment. It tells altogether too little of the daily inner life of the regiment, of the processes by which its thousand men were changed from citizens into thoroughly-disciplined soldiers; of the constant application of intelligent force by which its high character was sustained amid all the trials of active service, and in spite of the dangerous influence of inferior discipline all around it.