The introduction and the letters have never before been published, and (as is the case also with the material of the notes) are now in print only in the present volume. I judge, therefore, that I may be doing a service to the survivors of the generation of 1860 and also to the generations that have grown up since the War, by utilising the occasion of the publication of my own little monograph for the reprinting of these notes in a form for permanent preservation and for reference on the part of students of the history of the Republic. ! G. H. P. NEW YORK, April 2, 1909. |