Dedication.
TO COLONEL EDWIN A. SHERMAN.
Allow me to mention your name the first among the many to whom I dedicate this book.
I owe this to you as a token of gratitude for your help in my researches after the true murderers of our martyred President Abraham Lincoln.
I found you as wise and honorable in your counsels as our country found you brave on the battlefields of Liberty.
TO THE ORANGEMEN OF THE UNITED STATES, CANADA,
GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA
AND NEW ZEALAND,[[A]]
this book is also dedicated by the humblest of their brethren.