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Title: Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862

Author: Adam Gurowski

Release Date: May 22, 2009 [eBook #28926]

Language: English

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DIARY, FROM MARCH 4, 1861, TO NOVEMBER 12, 1862.

by

ADAM GUROWSKI.

Boston:
Lee and Shepard,
Successors to Phillips, Sampson & Co.
1862.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by
Lee and Shepard,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

Dedicated

TO

THE WIDOWED WIVES, THE BEREAVED MOTHERS, SISTERS,

SWEETHEARTS, AND ORPHANS

IN

THE LOYAL STATES.

_On doit a son pays sa fortune, sa vie, mais avant tout la Verite._

In this Diary I recorded what I heard and saw myself, and what I heard
from others, on whose veracity I can implicitly rely.

I recorded impressions as immediately as I felt them. A life almost
wholly spent in the tempests and among the breakers of our times has
taught me that the first impressions are the purest and the best.

If they ever peruse these pages, my friends and acquaintances will
find therein what, during these horrible national trials, was a
subject of our confidential conversations and discussions, what in
letters and by mouth was a subject of repeated forebodings and
warnings. Perhaps these pages may in some way explain a phenomenon