From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America<br><br>Possibly had I not expected our commander to write the history of those campaigns I should have written it myself a decade or so earlier than I have done. But personally I am not sorry that I write of the war thirty years after its close instead of ten or twenty.<br><br>While I am so constituted temperamentally that I could View then almost exactly as I do now the great struggle in which I bore a part I do not know that others in any considerable number might have so regarded it at the earlier periods to which I refer.<br><br>I believe that now more fully than then the public is ready to receive in the spirit in which it is written the story which I present.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.