This is a very nice old copy of this famous poem. The original work was published in 1928. This edition was published in 1954 by Rinehart and Company, Inc., New York & Toronto and contains lovely new illustrations. The book measures 7 5/8 inches by 9 7/8 inches and contains xvi, 368 pages. The cover consists of paper covered, pictorial hard boards and a cloth covered spine. The cover shows signs of discoloration around the edges. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The bottom right hand corner of the front and corresponding corner of the back cover are slightly bumped. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages are printed on good quality paper and show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this neat old book is near very good.

Excerpt - Note:
As this is a poem, not a history, it has seemed unnecessary to me to encumber it with notes, bibliography, and other historical apparatus. Nevertheless-besides such original sources as the Official Records, the series of articles in Battles and Leaders of the Civil War, and the letters, memoirs, and autobiographies of the various leaders involved-I should like to acknowledge my indebtedness to Channings’s The War for Southern Independence and McMaster’s The United States Under Lincoln’s Administration, to Oswald Garrison Villard’s John Brown: A Biography Fifty Years After, to the various Lives of Lincoln by Lord Charnwood, Carl Sandburg, and Ida Tarbell and the monumental work of Nicolay and Hay, to Nathaniel Wright Stephenson’s Abraham Lincoln: An autobiography, and, finally, my very particular debt to that remarkable first-hand account of life in the army of the Potomac, Four Brothers in Blue, by Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter, form which the stories of Fletcher the sharpshooter and the two brothers at Fredericksburg are taken.

In dealing with known events I have tried to cleave to historical fact where such fact was ascertainable. On the other hand, for certain thoughts and feelings attributed to historical characters, and for the interpretation of those characters in the poem, I alone must be held responsible.

The account of the defeated Union arty pouring into Washington after the first Bull Run is founded on a passage in Whitman’s Specimen Days and Collect.

The Black Horse Troop is an entirely imaginary organization and not to be confused with the so-called Black Horse Cavalry. In general, no fictional character in the poem is founded upon a real person, living or dead.

On page 56, in the inscription written by John Brown for his own monument, the dates of the deaths of his two sons are incorrectly given. They are so given in the original manuscript, no in the possession of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, and I have not felt at liberty to alter the original wording.

Stephen Vincent Benet
Neurilly-sur-Seine, April, 1928
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