The conflict, though not long in comparison with most of the great wars of History, has, nevertheless, been attended with losses, sufferings and privations, and with changes for the common good, rarely equaled. At the Opening of the great contest, we began to record its most impor tant events, and have, from time to time, corrected the record from official and authoritative sources. We have taken time. It was not our ambi tion to issue the first History of the war, but to wait the full development of particular events before we recorded them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.