PREFACE. To Mr. R. L. Lyman, Instructor in Harvard University, I owe invaluable aid in preparing the notes to this book. I wish to thank also Professor A. B. Hart for some details of these notes. To Professor H. B. Huntington, of Brown University, I owe helpful suggestion and comment when we used the material together at Harvard. In preparing copy for the press I have been greatly assisted by Miss Loraine P. Bucklin. Finally, I keenly appreciate the ready courtesy of the publishers and the authors without whose consent the greater part of this book could not have been reprinted. G. P. B. CONTENTS. PAGK TO GENERAL MCCLELLAN, PLAN OF CAMPAIGN TO PRESIDENT LINCOLN, THE PRAYER OF TWENTY MILLIONS, TO GENERAL HOOKER, PLACING HIM IN COMMAND OF ARMY To M. FELIX FAURE, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, THE To C. F. ADAMS, ON ENGLISH RECOGNITION OF THE CONFED- |