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The Project Gutenberg EBook of How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion, by George W. Peck This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 Author: George W. Peck Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25492] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PRIVATE GEORGE W. PECK *** Produced by David Widger HOW PRIVATE GEORGE W. PECK PUT DOWN THE REBELLION OR, THE FUNNY EXPERIENCES OF A RAW RECRUIT. By George W. Peck CHAPTER I. The War Literature of the "Century" is very Confusing--I am Resolved to tell the True Story of the War--How and "Why I Became a Raw Recruit--My Quarters--My Horse--My First Ride. For the last year or more I have been reading the articles in the _Century_ magazine, written by generals and things who served on both the Union and Confederate sides, and have been struck by the number of "decisive battles" that were fought, and the great number of generals who fought them and saved the country. It seems that each general on the Union side, who fought a battle, and writes an article for the aforesaid magazine, admits that his battle was the one which did the business. On the Confederate side, the generals who write articles invariably demonstrate that they everlastingly whipped their opponents, and drove them on in disorder. To read those articles it seems strange that the Union generals who won so many decisive battles, should not have ended the war much sooner than they did, and to read the accounts of battles won by the Confederates, and the demoralization that ensued in the ranks of their opponents, it seems marvellous that the Union army was victorious. Any man who has followed these generals of both sides, in the pages of that magazine, must conclude that the war was a draw game, and that both sides were whipped. Thus far no general has lost a battle on either side, and all of them tacitly admit that the whole thing depended on them, and that other commanders were mere ciphers. This is a kind of history that is going to mix up generations yet unborn in the most hopeless mann
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