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While on the subject of this chapter of yours,
- you quote a striking passage from 'Battles
and Leaders'. This is from Frank Wilkeson's
Reminiscences of a Private Soldier in the Army
of the Potomac, an admirable book. I think
it would be fairer to quote the title of the
work in your later editions, than a
reference to that all but inaccessible mine,
'Battles & Leaders. Either Putnams or
Scribners published it, both in England &
America.

I entirely agree with your parallels
from the American Civil War. I have been
preaching them from the very start. Incidentally
there is one great lesson to be drawn from that
struggle which you do not touch on - the
inefficacy of a blockade, however stringent,