Excerpt from Sketches of the War, Between the United States and the British Isles, Vol. 12: Intended as a Faithful History of All the Material Events From the Time of the Declaration in 1812, to and Including the Treaty of Peace in 1815: Interspersed With Geograhpical Descriptions of Places, and Biographical Notices of Distinguished Military And
Who may not have perused this work, as it progressed from the press, will perceive, that these numbers were commenced, and that part of them were written for a family record, while the war was continually proclaiming its events from the embattled field. Hence, the work, from a seeming necessity, and from the then unknown duration of the war, assumed its present form. Had all the events herein registered in our numbers been matter of history, before the first was printed, they would have enabled us to have given to this work a more dignified character. Perhaps, however, what we may lose in respect, the reader may gain in information. The simple "unvarnished tale" often more instructs than the leisurely composed and rounded periods of some better writer, but semi-romantic historian.
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