Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray

THIS BOOK WAS DONATED TO PROJECT GUTENBERG BY THE JAMES J. KELLY LIBRARY OF ST. GREGORY'S UNIVERSITY; THANKS TO ALEV AKMAN.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN EDITION ∴
VOLUME 31 THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA SERIES ALLEN JOHNSON EDITOR
GERHARD R. LOMER CHARLES W. JEFFERYS ASSISTANT EDITORS
GENERAL U. S. GRANT Photograph by Brady. In the collection of L. C. Handy, Washington.
A CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
BY WILLIAM WOOD
NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO. LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921
TO MY AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB
Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two—the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through.
I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale.