. History of the Seventh Massachusetts volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion of the southern states against constitutional authority. 1861-1865. With description of battles, army movements, hospital life, and incidents of the camp, by officers and privates; and a comprehensive introduction of the moral and political forces which precipitated the war of secession upon the people of the United States . of the seas, with over two hun-dred vessels and eight thousand men on ocean and rivervessels of war. And lastly, it taught the people of the North and Southproper respect for each other,
. History of the Seventh Massachusetts volunteer infantry in the war of the rebellion of the southern states against constitutional authority. 1861-1865. With description of battles, army movements, hospital life, and incidents of the camp, by officers and privates; and a comprehensive introduction of the moral and political forces which precipitated the war of secession upon the people of the United States . of the seas, with over two hun-dred vessels and eight thousand men on ocean and rivervessels of war. And lastly, it taught the people of the North and Southproper respect for each other, and that there was no mate-rial diflereuce in the make-up or fighting qualities of itsmen. And when the red flames of w^ar had ceased and theblows of death had given way to the clasped hands of friend-ship, and when the heart-aches had ceased from the land ina measure, it showed to the world the untold magnanimityof its people, and the great leader, who said, Let us havepeace rather than assassinations and reprisals. And now,in the short space of a quarter of a century, the scars of warare healed, and the veterans of the blue and gray fraternizeupon their fields of battle, and swear allegiance to the flagof their fathers, the emblem of liberty,—the red, white andblue,—the hope of the oppressed, the signet of equality ofall men before the law. The war also gave us our national currency, through the. M:I,S()N \. IIIK (o. K. GENERAL REVIEW OF THE WAR. 251 medium of our national hanks, one of the greatest improve-ments in the finances of the people that had ever been madeprevious to the war. Each State had issued bills of creditas it saw fit, and individual baidis, by State law, were es-tablished in the several States. A person traveling fromone to the other without gold or silver coin had to exchangehis bills for a discount, or possibly he could pass his moneyif the bank had a national reputation. It also gave us thegreenback, which should be the great nation
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