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Excerpt from During the War and After the War
The following article was published in the Phila. \veek]y Times, one of the most broad-minded journals of the country, soon after the war, and was afterwards incorporated in The Annals of the War by the principal participants North and South. We omit notes verifying statements made, because the body of this article takes more space than we can afford in jus tice to readers in quest of current topics and local news. We take pride in copying the article because a chief actor is a Fau quier man now a last year's leaf, as it were. Bronzing the foliage of Spring. When Co]. Scott returned from his expedition to Butler's camp, a citizen of Petersburg the Cockade Town of Va, said to him: If that service had been performed in the Northern Army they would have made you a Brigadier Gener al. To which Col. Scott modestly replied: Such things are quite too common with 11s to receive or to merit attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.
