Excerpt from Rival Administrations: Richmond and Washington in December, 1863

Owing to the extreme scarcity of paper and printing facilities in the Confederacy, the author of "The First and Second Years of the War" has arranged for the printing of his Third Volume in England, and is uncertain of the time of its appearance in the South. The following pages constitute a single chapter of the unpublished manuscript of this volume. These pages, thus disconnected, are not intended to advertise a forthcoming work, or to be violently imposed upon the public attention, but the author has supposed that they contained certain grave considerations, which have a present and immediate interest for the Southern public, apart from their general relations to the history of the war.

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