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VOLUME 31
THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA SERIES
ALLEN JOHNSON
EDITOR

GERHARD R. LOMER
CHARLES W. JEFFERYS
ASSISTANT EDITORS

GENERAL U. S. GRANT
Photograph by Brady. In the collection of L. C. Handy, Washington.

CAPTAINS OF THE CIVIL WAR

A CHRONICLE OF THE BLUE AND THE GRAY

BY WILLIAM WOOD

NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1921

TO
MY AMERICAN FRIENDS
OF THE
BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB

Page ixPREFACE

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter beganthe third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speakingpeople. This war was quite as full of politics as were the othertwo—the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritanand Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores thevital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a bookof warriors, through and through.

I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of ColonelG. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson,chief editor of the series and Professor of American History atYale.

WILLIAM WOOD,

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

QUEBEC,
  April 18, 1921.

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