From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America

Opening of the book

James Longstreet
FROM
Manassas to Appomattox
MEMOIRS OF THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA
BY
JAMES LONGSTREET,
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL CONFEDERATE ARMY
ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES, MAPS, PORTRAITS, AND ENGRAVINGS
SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THIS WORK
PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1896
Copyright, 1895,
by
J. B. Lippincott Company.
All Rights reserved.
Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company,

Philadelphia, U.S.A.
THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
TO THE
OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST CORPS OF THE ARMY
OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
In Memory of
THEIR BRAVE DEEDS, THEIR TOILS, THEIR TRIBULATIONS,
AND THEIR TRIUMPHS
PREFACE.
Immediately after the surrender of the Confederate armies
engaged in the war between the States, General Lee
undertook to write of the campaigns of the Army of
Northern Virginia while under his command, and asked such
assistance
as
I
could
give
in
supplying
reports,
despatches, and letters of his, the originals of which had
been lost or destroyed. Under the impression that they
could not be put to better use, such as were then in hand
were packed and sent him. He gave up the work, and after a
few years his death made it impossible that the world
should ever receive the complete story of the Confederate
campaigns in Virginia from the noble mind that projected
and controlled them.
Possibly, had I not expected our commander to write the
history of those campaigns, I should have written it
myself a decade or so earlier than I have done. But,

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