"I hope it is not improper to add that wherever, in all Christendom, there is hearty appreciation of profound learning allied to conscience and to a refined life, the recent paper of the Johns Hopkins professor of philology will be taken as conclusive proof that good and true and able men could uphold the cause of the Confederacy even in arms, and never doubt in their hearts that they were right."—Jacob Dolson Cox, "Why the Men of '61 Fought for the Union," Atlantic Monthly, March, 1892.
CORRECTIONS.
Transcriber's Note:
The following corrections have been made to the text.
p. 108, l. 18, for 'Weir' read 'Weyer'.
111, l. 27, Lee's middle name was Kendall, not Knox.
115, l. 23, read 'As Gabriel on the devil'.
121, l. 15, read 'was and is'.
123, l. 6, for [Greek: zyg/on] read [Greek: zyg\on].
124, l. 6, read Augustine, 'as always in the Washington family' W. Gordon McCabe.