Excerpt from The Rough and Ready Annual, 1848: Or Military Souvenir
The progress of the present eventful contest with Mexico has been fruitful of romantic and thrilling incidents. For ages preceding there have occurred no events in our history of so striking and brilliant a character. Many of these are mere episodes - actions in which a few individuals only were concerned, - and some are of a touching, almost a domestic nature. The record of the less important incidents of a great national war is apt to perish. It is fugitive in its nature, and is speedily lost, if not seized at the moment, and placed in a permanent form.
To rescue many of these anecdotes, incidents and personal traits from oblivion, and give them a permanent form by uniting them with outline sketches of the great events and characters of the war, is the purpose of the American Gift Book.
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