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LATE AN INSPECTOR-GENERAL IN THE U. S. ARMY,

AND

BENJAMIN DRAKE,

AUTHOR OF THE LIFE OF BLACK HAWK, &C.

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CINCINNATI:

PUBLISHED BY U. P. JAMES.
No. 26 Pearl Street.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by U. P. JAMES, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the District of Ohio.

Stereotyped by J. A. James,
No. 1 Baker St. Cincinnati.

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PREFACE.

THF following work has been written at the request of the Harrison committees in Cincinnati and Louisville, and is published under their sanction.

The limited size of the volume, and the rapidity with which the manuscript has been prepared for the press, have prevented the authors from doing entire justice to the subject of their memoir. Their chief aim has been the presentation of such a narrative of the civil and military services of general Harrison, as would enable the people of the United States, to appreciate more thoroughly, the great principles which have governed him in the faithful discharge of the many important trusts confided to him by his country, in the course of a long and eventful

career.

In the preparation of this work the authors have been much aided by colonel M'Affee's excellent History of the Late War-by Mr. Dawson's Historical Narrative, which embraces many valuable and authentic documents-and by Judge Hall's elegant Memoir of the Public Services of general Harrison. Several other historical and biographical narratives have been consulted; and, in addition to these sources of information, the authors have had the benefit of original letters and documents not heretofore embraced in any similar publication. They have also been favored with the personal recollections of several officers of the late war, who participated with

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