Excerpt from A Complete History of the Great Rebellion, or the Civil War in the United States, 1861 1865: Comprising a Full and Impartial Account of the Military and Naval Operations, With Vivid and Accurate Descriptions of the Various Battles, Bombardments, Skirmishes, Etc It will be observed that Doctor Moore has avoided politi cal discussion in this volume. In the opening chapter he has stated, in an impartial manner, the admitted causes of the civil war. His duty, in his necessarily limited space, was to present a true and readable, because intelligible narra tive, of the events 'of the late contest - the greatest that the world has seen in any time or country. That he has done this, I am confident, having read most of the book while it was passing through the press, and I take the liberty of are-1 commending it on this account. 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.