The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-02-07
paign, and on page 257 the author sums ul
some of the results of tho campaign:

pagn, and on page 257 the author sums up
some of the results of tho campaign:
The Efect-This cam paign during its four nom hs
of fighting and marching. day and night. i'm its 10
pitched battles and scores o lesser engagements,
cost The Union army 80 GOO man, and the Confeder-
| ate 81. 900.
| On the next page the historian says Hood
/ took that army. 10000 strong. n raid to
/ Nashville. II was nearly 80. 600 at the start,
/ had lost 35 600 in battles. aud had 10000 left
| to 20 on a raid. Great head for figures ON that
author
| The work makes no mention Of tho barbaric
| treatment of Union prisoners at Anderson Vile
and other Southern prisons. and copies from
| Pollard weak apology for the massacre at Fort
| Pillow. Up. 265.)
Gen. Lee receives fulsome biography of Is
lines in a foot note on page 23S. No other CON-
mander. either Federal or Confederate receives
biographical mention in this so-cailed history
OF the war Stonewall Jackson gets very
laudatory foot note on page PSI, and j. L. Ii.
Stuart comes in for nice obituary notice on
page 262. The deaths Of Lyon and Sedgwick
are barely stated; Stevens and Kearny get
two words of notice as liable officers" The
deaths of Lytle, Mansfield, Mcpherson. Reno
and Reynolds not mentioned at all.
Four Confederate Generals have their por-
traits elegantly engraved, while only three
Union Generals have sufficient merit in the
eyes of the author to be considered worthy of
this honor. The two pages devoted TO this
branch are filled up with the vignets Of promi-
neut naval commanders. The Union CON-
mandcrs were prominent enough-Fsrragut,
Foote and P0rter-but the historian did not
work in conjunction with the engraver in the
preparation of this book. for the engraver puts
an individual named Mitchell in his page en-
titled "COnfederate Leaders," while the his
torian fails to mention him in the body of the
work.
There Is a foot note on page 237 illustrating
one of the wonderful feats of Stonewall Jack
son, which the youthful reader is expected to
accept as fact; but while inserting it as such
tho author admits by the evasive words it is
said that he did not believe it himself.
Stonewall Jackson and Gen. Sheridan are the
central figures in a couple of thrilling battle
scenes. but for fear some admirer of the Lost
Cause" might think he was not getting bis
moneys worth, the publishers have generously
given an imaginary picture OF the death of j.
T.. H. Stuart which happened early in May,
1864, but for some stupid mercenary reason
it is sandwiched into the account Of the assas-
sination of Lincoln, which occurred after the
war was practically over; in fact the author
had already said the preceding page f275l,
speaking Of Lees surrender, " This closed the
war. and the Army Of virginia laid down their
arms aud turned homeward, no longer Confed-
crate soldiers, but American eitizens"
Everybody supposed at the time that they
were prisoners OF war; and remained such until
they took the oath of allegiance TO the United
States. As the history" says they were ''citi-
zens" it must be so, but the record of murders
and outrages by the Ku- Klux- Klan, the White
League. the massacre in Memphis and New Or
leans lead an impartial observer to the concas-
ion that much of the animosity to the Union
which tinctured everything in the South still
smouldered in the breasts of these American
citizens for q long time after the surrender.
The author copies vivid description of the
destruction of property on the levee at New
Orleans when the city was practically under
the guns Of Farragut and credits it to Pollard.
Now, Pollard was not within a thousand miles
OF the scene Pollard stole the statements from
the press reports of the day. (p. 231.)
In conclusion your committee would say
that history the work Is unfair, inaccu-
rate and misleading. and is unworthy place
as text book in any school of the United
States.
Respectfully submitted.
w. Fl. GREEN,
l.. III. CHENEY,
JAMES c. SrRAwN.