Excerpt from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War In narrating those' events which fell under his own eye, the writer has waived all scruples of delicacy, and used the first personal pronoun. This is far more sim ple and direct, while an opposite course would have savored of affectation. This is not a revision or new edition of the little volume published by the present writer during the rebellion. Daring and suffering, like a number of similar sketches published in newspapers, maga zines, ...
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Excerpt from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War In narrating those' events which fell under his own eye, the writer has waived all scruples of delicacy, and used the first personal pronoun. This is far more sim ple and direct, while an opposite course would have savored of affectation. This is not a revision or new edition of the little volume published by the present writer during the rebellion. Daring and suffering, like a number of similar sketches published in newspapers, maga zines, and pamphlets, was a hasty narrative of per sonal adventure, and made no pretence of complete ness. Capturing A locomotive is broader and more historic; a large amount of valuable material is now employed for the first time; and the story is approached in an entirely different manner. N 0 para graph of the old book is copied into the new. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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