Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Harvard Memorial Biographies, Vol. 1
The work not being a history, but a collection of biogra phies, historic interest has been kept subordinate to the exhibition of personal character. The best thing we have from history, said Goethe, is the enthusiasm which it excites; and any light here thrown on military move ments is only an indirect result, the main object being simply the delineation of the men. It was felt that if they could be truly pictured, and if vague superlatives could be rigidly excluded, then there would be no monotony in the book, since no two of these lives were in reality alike and it would contain nothing super?uous, because the humblest of these lives was still given for our country at last.
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