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Siege of Washington, D.C.

Siege of Washington, D.C.

Adams, F. Colburn

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Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Military HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1507675151
ISBN13: 9781507675151
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jan 23 2015
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Siege of Washington, D.C. is an American Civil War history text for children by F. Colburn Adams. MY publisher gives it as his opinion that a great many persons will be offended at what I have said in this work. He thinks, also, that quite a number of our great generals will be seriously disturbed in their dignity on seeing what liberties my artist has taken with them. Such opinions as these are rather too common with publishers in this country, who generally take very narrow views as to what public men think and do. This work was not written to offend, but to amuse and instruct little people. I have too much respect for our great generals to believe that they will feel offended at what I have said of them. Some of our little generals may perhaps take exception to the positions my artist has assigned them, and feel disposed to make war on him. But there will be nothing new in this, inasmuch as any close observer of the war must have seen that these little generals were always more fierce in making war on writers and artists than courageous in facing the enemy. That the Siege of Washington was the most remarkable military event history has any account of, is very well understood among those who participated in it. I must beg the reader, then, not to place false judgment on the pleasantry introduced here and there, since I have recorded, with great care and correctness, all the military movements, that took place during that memorable occasion. F. COLBURN ADAMS.

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