The chronicles of chivalry, of Froissart and of Monstrelet record no more valiant deeds than those performed by these plain American citizens from the farms and workshops of the North and the plantations of the South, who under the inspiration of love of native land were transformed into the grim warriors who contested the bloody issues of Shiloh and Gettysburg.

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¶ Had one of our ancestors who fought at Crécy, or Agincourt, or even in more recent times; had one who had shared the miseries of Valley Forge, or the glories of Yorktow bequeathed to us a narrative of his daily experiences written by some comrade in armswould we not prize it above almost all other earthly possessions? Is it, therefore, too much to say of the great Century War Book," Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," that it is the one book of all books that will be handed down with pride and veneration in American homes from generation to generation, and that Ameri can youth in all ages will draw their loftiest inspirations of patriotism from the examples of the great dead whose deeds adorn its pages?

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