. Four years of fighting : a volume of personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond . e can never die. Loved and lamented,but immortal. Paeans for the living, dirges for the work is done, not for an hour, a day, a year, but for alltime ; not for fame or ambition, but for the poor, the degraded,the oppressed of all lands, for civilization and Christianity, forthe welfare of the human race through Time and Eternity! THE END. Cambridge : Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Entered according to Act of Congress, in t
. Four years of fighting : a volume of personal observation with the army and navy, from the first battle of Bull Run to the fall of Richmond . e can never die. Loved and lamented,but immortal. Paeans for the living, dirges for the work is done, not for an hour, a day, a year, but for alltime ; not for fame or ambition, but for the poor, the degraded,the oppressed of all lands, for civilization and Christianity, forthe welfare of the human race through Time and Eternity! THE END. Cambridge : Stereotyped and Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. FIFTH EDITION. University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.:Cambridge. PREFATORY NOTE This volume, though historic, is not a history of the Rebel-lion, but a record of personal observations and experiencesduring the war, with an occasional look at affairs in general togive clearness to the narrative. The time has not arrived forthe writing of an impartial history of the conflict betweenSlavery and Freedom in the United States. Reports of mili-tary operations are incomplete; documents in the archives atWashington are inaccessible; much material remains to begathered before the patient historian can sift the wheat fromthe chaff. More than this, the war of ideas is not yet Rebels in some parts of the South are bent on exter-minating the African race. Few of those lately in rebellionplead guilty of having committed
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