Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some of the Men and Measures of the War and Reconstruction Period: An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Saturday Evening, March 4, 1882
When dealing with this subject now, it is difficult to avoid speaking Of the living, though the list Of the mighty dead is long enough to furnish, with interesting facts, the most extended dissertations upon the great subject. Already there have been marshaled on the road, which mor tals say point to eternity, numbers Of the great actors, and who have left their example to coming generations Of men. 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.
