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WITH LEE IN VIRGINIA
A Story Of The American Civil War.
by G.A. Henty

PREFACE.
My Dear Lads:
The Great War between the Northern and Southern States of America
possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because it was a struggle
between two sections of a people akin to us in race and language, but
because of the heroic courage with which the weaker party, with ill-fed,
ill-clad, ill-equipped regiments, for four years sustained the contest
with an adversary not only possessed of immense numerical superiority,
but having the command of the sea, and being able to draw its arms and
munitions of war from all the manufactories of Europe. Authorities still
differ as to the rights of the case. The Confederates firmly believed that

the States having voluntarily united, retained the right of withdrawing
from the Union when they considered it for their advantage to do so.
The Northerners took the opposite point of view, and an appeal to arms
became inevitable. During the first two years of the war the struggle
was conducted without inflicting unnecessary hardship upon the
general population. But later on the character of the war changed, and
the Federal armies carried wide-spread destruction wherever they
marched. Upon the other hand, the moment the struggle was over the
conduct of the conquerors was marked by a clemency and generosity
altogether unexampled in history, a complete amnesty being granted,
and none, whether soldiers or civilians, being made to suffer for their
share in the rebellion. The credit of this magnanimous conduct was to a
great extent due to Generals Grant and Sherman, the former of whom
took upon himself the responsibility of granting terms which, although
they were finally ratified by his government, were at the time received
with anger and indignation in the North. It was impossible, in the
course of a single volume, to give even a sketch of the numerous and
complicated operations of the war, and I have therefore confined
myself to the central point of the great struggle--the attempts of the
Northern armies to force their way to Richmond, the capital of Virginia
and the heart of the Confederacy. Even in recounting the leading events
in these campaigns, I have burdened my story with as few details as
possible, it being my object now, as always, to amuse as well as to give
instruction