The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-01

plan was not less happy. Old wartime
photographs innumerable, sketches made
at the time Of the fighting and since, to-
gether with more recent views upon all
the noted battle-felds taken By improved
Photographic processes now In vogue,
were used 20 illuminate the written pages.
The work as completed was one which
could have been made at no other period
or by any other establishment. All OF
the vast resources Of the well-knOwn Cen
fury Company were taxed and over a
quarter Of a million dollars expended be-
fore the finished work was given 10 the
public.
But this heavy expenditure necesslta;ed
selling price which placed the work at
a figure beyond the resources OF the great
reading public. II IS only recently that
THE TINES. with a conception Of the
popular demands Of the day equally
unique with that OF the original plan
ners Of the book, has concluded arrange
ments whereby the best and more attrac-
tive portions OF the work and me IL
lustratlon. may be obtained at a nominal
cost.
THE TIMES feels confident this eforI
will b. appreciated upon the ground that
the matter belongs upon the high plane
Of patriotism.
The great civil war was fought 10
conclusion. and the value Of its lessons
exist not only for the fast fading rem
nants OF those who stood arrayed III
fighting garments Of blue and gray put
belongs equally now to the civilian WI"
toiled that others might fight 10 noun
ers and wiz rs who wept tears OF pe
reavement. and especially 10 the present
generation. who see but the tattered COZ
crs and yearly reunions Of the olu
guard" -.
There IS hardly a page Of the Dook
which is not replete with the spirit OF no.
bic deeds and heroic sacrifices. Against
abe dim background OF tradition tne
story CLOVIS afresh in the splendor Oh la''
ing illumination .1 10,
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greatest history Of the greatest ~, ~"
var" II will always be the Stlnu' - -;
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t.scn thus dwelt upon because ~, - "a 10
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