Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the 3d, 7th, 8th and 12th Kentucky, C. S. A
Histories of war are always attractive and fascinating to the human mind. With all its horrors and ravages, it ever appeals to the admiration and sympathetic emotion of mankind.
N 0 war which covered a period of four years ever witnessed so many battles or was marked by such tremendous mortality as was that between the States. The seven hundred thousand men who fell in that gigantic struggle attest the terrible determination of the combatants on either side, The war lasted days, and five hundred men died on every day of this lengthened period. These were the offerings North and South tendered in the con?ict for that which they deemed right.
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