A Cycle of Adams Letters 1861 1865, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Cycle of Adams Letters 1861 1865, Vol. 1The letters open with the Minister on his way to London, with his son Henry as secretary, with Charles on temporary garrison duty at Fort Independence in Boston harbor, with the war opened and the North partially aroused. They close with the Minister's great triumph in diplomacy accomplished and with the son's retirement from the army, broken in health. The let ters require no annotation. The history of the War of Secession has been told and retold in its every phase, and no letters could relate the old story in a connected manner. Yet in the contemporary record which follows will be found no little new history, much untold detail, much discussion, many rumors and predictions, ex pressed with individuality and in a literary form. The progress of the great con¿ict supplies the background, against which stand prominently personal experiences, hopes and fears. It is an old story, but the manner of telling it is new, all the more remarkable because unstudied and spontaneous.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.