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On the Trail of Grant and Lee

By Frederick Trevor Hill





To Howard Ogden Wood, Jr.





Forward




During the early years of the Civil War someone tauntingly asked
Mr. Charles Francis Adams, the United States Minister to England,
what he thought of the brilliant victories which the confederate
armies were then gaining in the field. "I think they have been
won by my fellow countrymen," was the quiet answer.