[C] This letter, which is printed in full in Marshall’s Life of Washington, was among the highest personal compliments ever paid Washington. The signers were seasoned soldiers, addressing a young man of twenty-three, under whom they had made a campaign of frightful hardship ending in disaster. They were to be ordered to resume operations in the spring, and it was to this young man that these officers appealed, believing him to be essential to the proper conduct of the campaign.
By JAMES BARNES
A LOYAL TRAITOR. A Story of the War of 1812. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, $1 50.
A vigorous romance it is, full of life and adventure.—N. Y. Herald.
A stirring story.... The several characters are finely balanced and well drawn, and are admirably interwoven to give reasonableness and completeness in every chapter.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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An excellent and intensely interesting story of romance and adventure.—Brooklyn Standard-Union.
The book has freshness, animation, and strong story-interest.—Outlook, N. Y.
A quick-moving, picturesque story. The daring Yankee sailor of that naval war, his life above deck and below, in battle and in cruise, his dialect and yarns, are all quaintly reproduced in a series of vivid scenes.—Philadelphia Record.
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