Excerpt from Defending His Flag: Or a Boy in Blue and a Boy in Gray I think the time has come when the truth, and the whole truth at that, can be told, and when it will do positive good. Since the Span ish-american War, when some of the gallant Southern ofiicers and men made such records for themselves under Old Glory, the old lines have been practically wiped out. The recon structed South is as firm a part of our Nation as was the old South during the first half of the last century, and it has a perfect right to honor the memories of those who, while wear ing the gray and marching under the stars and bars, fought so gallantly for what they consid ered was right and true. 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.