Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1861-09-14
IN Weekly Parts, 81 pages, large svo.
PRICE 10 CENTS

T'HE want of an authentic aud thorough His
i tory of the Rebellion, for present reference
and future preservation, is the subject of gem
eral remark. No work of that nature has vet
been offered to the public, and all who wish
for information are compelled to grope through
the mazes of the rumors, reports, dispatches,
letters and editorials of the daily newspapers
TO lrcc;p,tdte from its confused columns, the
great facts and incidents Oft tie struggle for the
Union.
To meet this want and to produce work Of
permanent ralue as rel as Of present interest," the
publisher has arranged for the issue of the his
tory as above set forth-in form and at a
price which shall render it acceptable TO oil.
This history will tell the SToFY rs IT IS, st.
ing clear, consecutive narrative of the entire
movement, including all the incidents and
events in their exact order, and containing tlis
important documents and extracts from re
markable speeches. 1t will not be n mere di1
airy, nor Il mere enumeration Of dry and naked
dates nor compilation of slips from newspa-
pers but portray in connected and interesting
narrative, the revolutionary steps, well as
the measures of the Government.
1t will carefully digest all cyidcncc-will sift
al rumors and reports-will fix upon facts, and
correct so far as possible, the errors and dis
crepancies incident to the hasty narratives Of
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1t will be written III style suited to its
themc-at once graphic, earnest and luminous
introducing such personal and social Incidents
as may serve to show the relations of indiyidu-
ais and communities to the grand events Of the
times
1t is true, everybody reads the newspapers;
but the reports of the newspapers are the frag-
mcntary and contradictory children of the mo-
mcnt, and not a correct, connected and complete
history. The above publication, afterwards
bound in handsome volume, will be book
for tic family, which will be valued like the
records of the War of Independence, or the
Life of Washington, and worthy to be kept for
children and grandchildren, as a memorial Of
| the present times.
| 1t will thus prove desirable, available and
satisfactory to every citizen, every family,
| cry office, every library and is given to the
public in the full assurance that it will COM
mand the appreciation of every patriot every
! Union man, every good citizen in our still Clio
rous Land.
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