. The American civil war book and Grant album, "art immortelles" . The Majority of these Reproductions are Exclusive and have never before been exhibited to the public Ibis IRame anb fame will Xivc forever. Published by Tlie U. s- Government collection of Grant Relics are used Wiliiam H. Allei* by permission of the authorities of the U. S. National Museum Main Office: Boston, Mass. for thS publication. Branch Office: New York City Copyrlnfil, t>y William H. Allen. INTRODUCTION. T IKE a song without words, so may history be written. Indeed, a fewsheets of the simple music known as the Songs
. The American civil war book and Grant album, "art immortelles" . The Majority of these Reproductions are Exclusive and have never before been exhibited to the public Ibis IRame anb fame will Xivc forever. Published by Tlie U. s- Government collection of Grant Relics are used Wiliiam H. Allei* by permission of the authorities of the U. S. National Museum Main Office: Boston, Mass. for thS publication. Branch Office: New York City Copyrlnfil, t>y William H. Allen. INTRODUCTION. T IKE a song without words, so may history be written. Indeed, a fewsheets of the simple music known as the Songs of the War awakena better memory of that struggle, and would more fitly open this work, thananything which may otherwise be said. The chief, if not the only worth in a tale of great deeds, is truth, and thiscannot be told either to the ear, or in print, so that all of it may lie held atonce in the mind, fully and exactly. Words can only show things one afteranother, and some that are but parts of a whole are forgotten or crowded out,before the rest can be brought forward. Add to this, that no one man cansee or know all that may happen at the same time, touching any large matter,and that no two can look from the same view-point at the same time, and socan see nothing in quite the same way, that the same words do not mean thesame thing to all men, and that most men are apt to be biased in what theyhave any will to say, and it must be yielded, that the art prese
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