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WE are glad that Major Butler takes up the narrative of his event- ful life,—which his two preceeding works had brought to the mo- ment at which he learned, being then in......

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WHEN Colonel Sherman joined head-quarters at Washington, in June, 1861, he found a prevailing sentiment that the war would be "short and decisive," and that as soon as the......