Identifier: mississippivalle01fisk (find matches)
Title: The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
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Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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64846 COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY JOHN FISKEALL RIGHTS RESERVED f-- FIRST C«PY.
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v^-x-ic^ r»c»^ci TO MY OLD FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE MARSHALL SOLOMON SNOW PROFESSOR OF HISTORY IN THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AT ST. LOUIS THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED PREFACE In the course of my annual visit to St. Louis, in.the spring of 1886,1 gave four lectures in the greattheatre of the Exposition Building, in aid of thefund for erecting a monument to General Grant.These lectures touched upon many of the pointstreated in chapters i.-viii. of the present work, end-ing with the battle of Chattanooga. It is pleasantto remember the warm interest shown in the lecturesby General Sherman, who presided on each oc-casion, and enlivened the suppers which followedwith his abounding good-fellowship and his flashesof quaint wit. Those were evenings not to be for-gotten. The lectures — illustrated with maps, diagrams,views of towns and fortresses, landscapes and por-traits, with the aid of the stereopticon — were givenduring two years in many cities north of Mason andDixons line, from

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