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Excerpt from Leaves From a Lawyer's Life: Afloat and Ashore
The power which chie y made the Federal blockade so effective - the power without which indeed the Civil War might have had a different termination - was that of steam.
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Excerpt from Leaves From a Lawyer's Life: Afloat and Ashore
Without concealing my personal predilection for the Cause of the Union, I have sought to treat the Lost Cause with entire candor.
Though I am not prepared to say, with General William F. Bartlett, that I am as proud of the men who charged so bravely with Pickett's Division on our lines at Gettysburg, as I am of the men who so brave l y met and repulsed them there I am prepared to say with him, that, notwithstanding the great and wide spread demoralization which attended it, the War developed and proved, on both sides, the noblest quali ties of American manhood. It has left us soldiers and sailors, once foes, now friends, a memory of hard-fought fields, Of fearful sacrifices, and of heroic valor.
Since these pages were in type, the pardon of Captain Small, which was foreshadowed on page 54, has become an accomplished fact.
I learned, long ago, that it was Senator Wade, and not General Hawley, who made the faux pas at the Navy Department, recorded on page 124; but failed, by inadvertence, to make the proper correction until that page had been printed.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.