Life and Letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, Brevet Major-General United States Volunteers, 1820-1887 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Life and Letters of Thomas Kilby Smith, Brevet Major-General United States Volunteers, 1820-1887 General Smith's career as a soldier was a type of that of many others whose impressions have been published, but I doubt if any collection of letters has been made, descriptive of the scenes in the theatre of war in which he moved, so full and graphic as those written by him, marked as they were by the frankness that characterizes a family correspondence. His judgment of events was often inaccurate, and his state ments at times doubtless exaggerated by the excitement of the moment but the conclusions he formed of the leading actors with whom he was associated will be found to have been for the most part borne out by the event. Interest in books of this kind must of necessity become less and less intense as later events in the world's history claim our attention. While there are many thousands still surviving who bore arms in the Civil War, almost all of the leaders have passed away, and the veterans of every rank are rapidly giving place to men who know of the great con ¿ict only as a tradition. Still, so long as history is read, men will be interested in the story of this period and the names of the great men on both sides will never be erased from the roll of fame. 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.