Excerpt from On the War Path: A Journey Over the Historic Grounds of the Late Civil War
I do not write books for a living. This statement will be no less gratifying to the reading public than it is to myself.
For some years, I have been a Washington news-gatherer, trained to telegraph special facts to the press in the fewest possible words. Recently becoming one of the grand army of office seekers, I have availed myself of some of the abundaut leisure always afforded these gentlemen, to jot down, in the form of personal reminiscences, some of the actual experiences and incidents coming under my observation, which have never been printed in the newspapers, and which are herewith submitted without any pretense to literary embellishment.
The only motive that prompts me to this work springs from an honest and sincere desire to put in permanent form, for the master-builder or future historian, some straws that may be used in the mortar that cements the coming monumental history of this period.
It will be apparent to the most casual reader that, in telling so many things that are sure to displease, the writer must at least be trying to be truthful, even at the sacrifice or at the expense of judgment or discretion.
Nor has there been any feeling of bitterness or resentfulness; not even the slightest disposition to "get even" with anybody. I confess, however, to an inborn inability to obey the scriptural injunction to turn the other cheek. And, though enjoying the reputation of an inoffensive citizen, it is my nature, without much regard to consequences, to strike back at any one who may attack.
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