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Excerpt from General McClellan
The accomplished author of this volume com pleted the work, with the exception of the preface and index, in December last. In the following Feb ruary the reading of the proof was interrupted.by an illness, terminating in his untimely death on the l6th of that month, so that the labor of proof reading de volved upon his friend and assistant professor, Cap tain Cornelis De W. Willcox, of the Artillery Corps. Dr. Otto Plate, librarian of the Academy, prepared the elaborate index, and, under the supervision of Pro fessor Michie, the maps were made by First Lieu tenant William Ruthven Smith, of the Artillery Corps, an instructor in the Department of Philosophy.
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