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same time, in an historical point of view, all the value of a narrative written by one of the eye-witnesses and actors in the great American drama.
We shall conclude this note with a final reference, which will convey to the reader an idea of the multitude of documents of varied importance and value that have been published on the subject of which we are treating; this is a large quarto volume entitled ‘Bartlett's Literature of the Rebellion,’ which appeared in 1866, and is simply a catalogue of all the works relating to the civil war; it contains more than six thousand numbers, and during the last six years the quantity of these works has probably doubled.
In the succeeding pages of our history we shall indicate whatever sources worthy of mention we may have occasion to consult in any subsequent portion of the narrative.
end of volume I.
Philadelphia, Jos. H. Coates and co., 1876.
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