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CAPTAINS

OF THE CIVIL WAR

A CHRONICLE OF

THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

BY WILLIAM WOOD

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NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.

LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Undergraduate

E 467

.W88 1921a

Copyright, 1921, by Yale University Press

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PREFACE

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.

WILLIAM WOOD,

Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal
Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian
Special Mission Overseas.

QUEBEC,

April 12, 1921.

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