Excerpt from The Life of General Garibaldi: Translated From His Private Papers, With the History of His Splendid Exploits in Rome, Lombardy, Sicily and Naples, to the Present Time

The succeeding pages are devoted to his services in Italy in the revolutions of 1849, 1859 and 1860, and a large proportion of their contents is occupied by his proclamations and other documents of his own, in translating which the same efforts have been made to render them correctly.

The author has received assistance from some of the country men of Garibaldi in New York, for information not otherwise to be obtained, several of whom have been his fellow-soldiers. Many extracts have been taken from the most authentic and interesting descriptions, by intelligent eye-witnesses, of scenes in the two last campaigns in Italy. A personal acquaintance with Italy and Italians has enabled the writer to select, arrange, and explain the vast amount of materials presented by those most extraordinary seasons, in a manner perhaps best adapted for his readers. Some omissions were necessary, in composing a work of this kind, but nothing of essential importance.

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