Excerpt from Southern History of the Great Civil War in the United StatesThe author does not pretend to have written a brilliant or elaborate work, but he does claim to have composed, without necking after literary ornaments, a truthful, compact and inde pendent popular narrative ol the events of the first year of the war.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.