PREFACE



their conclusions, I desire to record my indebted-
ness to them in the fullest possible way.
  I further desire to make may acknowledgments
to Colonel Hunter Liggett, Colonel Charles (.
Treat, and the officers who accompanied them
in the War College expedition of 1911 over the
battle-fields of Virginia, for their courtesy ex-
tended me during that expedition and for the
great aid which I derived from their careful and
thoughtful discussions of Lee's campaigns in
Virginia. The historical spirit in which these
soldiers have approached tLeir subject is one I
have endeavored to emulate, even though I may
have done so vainly, and is, the best assurance
that in time a complete history of the great war
will be written.
                        THOS. NELSON PAGE.
 WASHINGTON, October, 1911.



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