A HOUSEHOLD STORY OF THE AMERICAN CONFLICT. The Brother Soldiers. "The Union must be preserved." ABRAHAM LINCOLN. BY MARY S. ROBINSON., New York: 87 PARK ROW AND 145 NASSAU STREET, 1871. 2712-f.53. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by N. TIBBALS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. PREFACE. SOME account of the American war, adapted to the children gathered in our churches, and largely dependent on our Sunday-school libraries for mental recreation, has been thought to be a desideratum by those interested in their needs. Such an account, conveyed in a familiar, unpretending manner, has been attempted in this volume, the first of a short series. It is meant to extend through the war, giving prominence, not merely to its important events, but to the generous and soldierly virtues that characterized the times. To this end, and not alone for childish entertainment, many credible incidents have been admitted that illustrate our confiict, if they do not directly make a part of it. Truc patriotism is so nearly allied to the religious sentiment, and the conduct of our people during the war was so largely shaped and sustained by American Christianity, that it has been thought unnecessary to give to the present volume a directly religious character. Such facts as these, occurring in the self-defence of a Christian people, would, perhaps, teach more forcibly than exhor-. 3 |