TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
The following changes have been made to the original text:
Page 21: Added footnote marker missing in text.
Page 78: "Delagado" changed to "Delgado"
Page 90: "Good-by" changed to "Good-bye" (Good-bye, General; I'm done.)
Page 102: "philososopher" changed to "philosopher" (Benjamin, moralist, statesman, and philosopher).
Page 107: "Scotish" changed to "Scottish" (James, a Scottish officer distinguished for piety and courage).
Page 159: "Labédoyére" changed to "Labédoyère".
Page 304: "distinguishd" changed to "distinguished" (John Greenleaf, distinguished American poet).
Page 323: Missing page reference added (after "Begone, thou wretched beast,").
Page 327: "they" changed to "thy" (I give thee thanks, O God, for all thy benefits).
Page 328: "inquity" changed to "iniquity" (I have loved justice and hated iniquity).
Page 331: "Tète" changed to "Tête" (La Nation Française, Tête d'armée).
In addition to this, minor punctuation errors have been corrected without comment. A few instances of missing opening or closing parenthesis or quotation marks have also been corrected without note.
All other variations in spelling or inconsistent hyphenation have been retained as they appear in the original book.
Also worth mentioning is that throughout this book there are a number of factual errors and misspellings of names. These have also been retained as they appear in the original text, except for in the cases mentioned above where they have been altered for consistency (for example: General Robert Edmund Lee born 1806 is in fact General Robert Edward Lee born 1807 and Jacob Böhmen's name is in fact Jakob Böhme).