Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Narrative of the Civil War: For Schools and Colleges
This book is written in a plain, unvarnished style and chronologically arranged. It is a truthful narrative of the facts and events of the great War between the States, the civil war. It is intended to be a supplementary reader for schools, being an abridgment of the author's larger volume, The Civil War. It was due the young that a suitable his tory of that struggle be placed in the schools, and the author was importuned to prepare it. The objection to most histo ries that have been written on the war is that they are of too large and bulky a character for the general reader. This his tory is written for the young, many of whom are teachers. It is the only one separate from United States History.
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