Excerpt from Civil War Stories: Retold From St. Nicholas These stories, simply told, yet vivid and true, have been here brought together with the hope of instilling in the minds Of even the youngest readers Of history a love for their country and an interest in the men who defended it and the many who sacrificed their lives in SO doing. 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.