Preface

Name: Captains of the Civil War; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray - Preface
Author: William Charles Henry Wood

Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two—the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through.

I gratefully acknowledge the indispensable assistance of Colonel G. J. Fiebeger, a West Point expert, and of Dr. Allen Johnson, chief editor of the series and Professor of American History at Yale.

WILLIAM WOOD,

Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas.

QUEBEC, April 18, 1921,

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Chicago: William Charles Henry Wood, "Preface," Captains of the Civil War; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, ed. Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 in Captains of the Civil War; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray Original Sources, accessed November 23, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D2MCB966AWP4LWF.

MLA: Wood, William Charles Henry. "Preface." Captains of the Civil War; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, edited by Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907, in Captains of the Civil War; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Original Sources. 23 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D2MCB966AWP4LWF.

Harvard: Wood, WC, 'Preface' in Captains of the Civil War; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, ed. . cited in , Captains of the Civil War; a Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray. Original Sources, retrieved 23 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D2MCB966AWP4LWF.