THE GREAT CIVIL WAR VOL 1

ISBN: 9780267785117 Géneros: HBW Sinópsis: Excerpt from The Great Civil War Vol 1 A History of the Late Rebellion With Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders EtcWhen the first numbers of this work were issued nothing appeared more certain than that the civil war the history of which it was intended faithfully to record would be of short duration and that a single volume would be amply sufficient to comprise all that a faithful detail of events would require A few of the more farsighted persons in the community thought the contest might last twelve or eighteen months but none were bold enough to hazard the conjecture that it would be prolonged through four eventful years The dis tinguished Secretary of State Mr Seward confidently promised the extinction of the rebellion in sixty days But as month after month and year after year elapsed and the scene of warlike Operations extended over a constantly widening area with an everincreasing earnestness in the two sections of the country arrayed against each other it became apparent that not one volume nor even two would suffice for a complete history of the war Happily the end came at last and though not altogether unexpected by those who knew the actual exhaustion of the South with a suddenness almost as startling so accustomed had the public mind become to a state of war as the first burst of hostilities in the bombardment of Fort Sumter When the makers of history ceased the writers of it began to see a termination of their labors and only then could the publishers set limits to the extent of the WorkAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In ra