Heroes of the Great Conflict: Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteers in the Civil War (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Heroes of the Great Conflict: Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteers in the Civil WarOf the troops, and leave their trials, hard ships and extraordinary Virtues largely to the imagination. They are entirely si lent as to the qualities and idiosyncrasies of the leaders. Neither romance nor per sonal adventure finds any place within their pages, and fine writing is entirely foreign to their purpose. They are for the most part dry and unemotional in.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.