From Hon. Grover Cleveland.

I was delighted to receive a copy of your book, and shall enjoy reading connectedly rec ollections and incidents which I have occasion. ally glanced at in THE TIMES.

From President Harrison.

From Major-General S. W. Crawford.

The beautiful book is certainly a most valuable and important contribution to just that sort of history always so difficult to reach. From Hon. D. Watson Rowe.

Candor, truthfulness and impartiality are

From Hon. John Sherman.

It is extremely interesting as a literary and historical work.

From Governor Robert E. Pattison.

The work will not only be appreciated because of its literary merit, but also for the many valuable reminiscences formerly in your possession and now given to the public.

From Hon. Edwin S. Stuart.

I will gladly seize the first opportunity to peruse its pages, knowing well what a rich treat awaits me. I know of no one as well qualified as yourself to sketch the characters of the men who were prominent in national affairs during that momenious part of our history. From Hon. Wayne MacVeagh.

Perhaps I am as well qualified as any one now surviving to judge of the accuracy of your memory of the events you so graphically describe, and of the justice of the judgments you pronounce upon the men and of events of that great crisis in the history of mankind. therefore venture to call it a book which reflects lustre upon its author, and is sure to be of increasing interest and advantage to all true Americans.

From Rev. Henry C. McCook, D.D.

Your work has impressed me by its clear and forceful language. I hardly know whether to value it most for its contributions to history or its absorbing interest of narrative and attractive style.

From Rev. George Dana Boardman, D.D.

I have perused it with deepest interest. It is marked by patriotic enthusiasm, appreciative insight, bold characterization, happy groupings and felicitous expressions.

From Rev. Lawrence M. Colfelt, D.D.

I am astonished at the amount and variety of the new light thrown by its pages upon so many of the chief actors.

From Rev. H. L. Wayland, D.D.

I spent all of last evening in reading it. It is charmingly written and cannot fail to be widely read.

From Hon. F. Carroll Brewster.

You have eliminated to the scholar of this day, and to the reader of all time, a measure of research and of history pressed down and brimming over, which will make your name historical with Gibbon, Froude, Macaulay, Carlyle and Prescott.

From U. S. Minister Fred. D. Grant.

Your book will certainly be of great value to future historians when they come to write of the characters of the famous men whom you have described, and whom you knew so well personally.

point of style and intensely interesting. From Hon. William H. Armstrong.

It has been to me a book of interest and instruction, and with many thousands who will appreciate it, I thank you for the good work you have done.

From General John Gibbons.

It is the fairest and most unprejudiced record of the times to which it relates that I have ever read, and demonstrates you to be a man with the courage of his convictions. From Ex-Governor James A Beaver.

I want to thank you especially for writing it. I know of no better service which you could have rendered to the present generation. Your tribute to Lincoln, and the contribution which you make to the study of his character, are worthy of the subject and of you.

From Horace Howard Furness.

Every duty was forgotten this evening when your book came; every claim of correspondence cast to the "winds, and for three hours I surrendered myself to the irresistible charm of its delightful pages. If ever a man's duty was clear before him, yours was to write this book. From the Philadelphia North American.

These recollections are much more than a mere record of events which are more or less of record. They give us an insight of men and motives always interesting and often clarifying to the rather muddled personal history of that time.

From the Philadelphia Press.

Colonel McClure has given us a book that is wholly charming. He has contributed to the literature and the civil war a series of related studies and interdependent memories which are of abiding interest and value.

From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.

The younger generation needs to be informed and educated in the inner history of the civil war, and it is as an educator of young Americans that this book is largely valuable. From the New York Morning Advertiser.

It is questioned whether any living writer could throw such side lights on these eminent men as has Colonel McClure.

From the Sioux City (Iowa) Tribune.

Being from the pen of a veteran journalist, it is well written, and there is not a page in it that is not interesting

From the New York Morning Journal.

It is clear, precise, calm and unbiased. offers few opinions, but states many facts. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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History is indebted to Mr. McClure for these pictures. His style is always simple and unaffected. He writes unpretentiously, with a manner which is engaging and readable.