The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1868-08-20
LITER AIRY.

'FTHE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES, ITS
CAUSES, CHARACTER, CONDUCT AND Re-
SUITS" by Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, is
the title of a valuable work just issued by
the National Publishing Co., Philade phia.
Pa.
Histories of the late civil war have sprung
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events of the late lamentable war, have felt
| the want of a reliable history of the same
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protestant against rebellion, and only sue
cumbed at the last moment, when his State,
in spite OF his warning, committed the great
error.
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1t presents careful political analysis of
the past, separating real from apparent
causes of the late unhappy conflict. aud
gives those interior lights and shadows of
the great war, only known to those high
officers who watched the hood-tide of revotu-
tlon from its fountain springs, and which
were so accessible to.Mr. Sterhens from his
position as second officer of the Confederacy
10 public that has been surfeited with
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The Great American War has al last found
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