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Title: Chancellorsville and Gettysburg Campaigns of the Civil War - VI
Author: Abner Doubleday
Release Date: March 7, 2007 [EBook #20762]
Language: English
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CHANCELLORSVILLE AND GETTYSBURG
CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR.--VI.
CHANCELLORSVILLE AND GETTYSBURG
BY ABNER DOUBLEDAY BREVET MAJOR-GENERAL, U.S.A., AND LATE MAJOR-GENERAL U.S.V.; COMMANDING THE FIRST CORPS AT GETTYSBURG.
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 743 AND 745 BROADWAY 1882
COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1882
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PREFACE.
In writing ths narrative, which relates to the decisive campaign which freed the Northern States from invasion, it may not be out of place to state what facilities I have had for observation in the fulfilment of so important a task. I can only say that I was, to a considerable extent, an actor in the scenes I describe, and knew the principal leaders on both sides, in consequence of my association with them at West Point, and, subsequently, in the regular army. Indeed, several of them, inc