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events which have been fruitful of result, or given direction to campaigns, have been considered. The chief object of this volume will be attained. if those who have come upon the stage since the close of the war, by a perusal of its pages, are enabled to comprehend the meaning of the great historic drama-what this Government of the people has cost and what it is worth, what their fathers accomplished for the continuance of the nation, the wiping out of slavery, and the welfare of the human race through all coming time.

BOSTON, September, 1887.

CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.

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