A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin Tennessee

It is my opinion that few persons who possess a liberal education but what if they make the effort could write some sort of a book; but to write a book and make it interesting at the same time have it contain truth and common sense is no easy task; but to write one and let it contain nothing except plain facts without any of the coloring which we would give to fiction and which adds so much charm to the book and interest for the reader is a greater and much more laborious task. In writing this little book I have endeavored to keep it clear of all fiction and romance and to place only facts before the reader. I have not drawn upon my imagination for any incident contained in the following pages. Perhaps some of the incidents may appear unreasonable to those who have grown up within the last decade and know but little practically of the war between the States and nothing whatever of the life of a prisoner of war; nevertheless they are all stubborn facts.