Kennesaw's Bombardment

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Excerpt from Kennesaw's Bombardment: Or How the Sharpshooters Woke Up the Batteries It is customary for an author to introduce his book with a preface, and, since "Man yields to custom as he bows to fate, " this book will have to begin with a preface, although it has become necessary to drop out a few shells in order to get it in, the only regret of the "men who were on the mountain top, " being that the omission was not made over twenty-live years earlier. As the reader will readily gather by wading through it, and looking at the pictures, it is intended as a historical novel, - as a view of the panorama which war spread out upon and around Kennesaw Mountain on that "day of thrilling events, " - the historical part of it being as nearly correct as it is possible to make it by laboriously and carefully fishing out the facts with a drag-net with pin-hook attachment, - and the fictitious part being as fascinating as the writer's riotous love of sentiment will allow. If it be urged by the northern reader that the "sentiment" is all southern, it is a fair reply to say that that was the kind which prevailed on Kennesaw at the date shown in the book, and the author's intention and determination have been to make the picture a true and characteristic one. In the preparation of this work, there has been the most extensive research, at odd times within the past three years, through official reports, files of daily newspapers published during June, 1864, and correspondence or personal conversations with those who took part in the scenes attempted to be described. 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.