The Chicago Massacre of 1812: With Illustrations and Historical DocumentsKirkland, Joseph
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The Chicago Massacre of 1812: With Illustrations and Historical Documents
Kirkland, Joseph
Chicago (Ill.) -- History; Fort Dearborn Massacre, Chicago, Ill., 1812
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and the "McVeys," and they are not a few, "Company K" will be a
double treat, as it carries some of the characters he has portrayed
in them through the scene of the great rebellion. The style of the
book is clearly hinted at in its unique dedication to "The surviving
men of the firing line; who could see the enemy in front of them with
the naked eye, while they would have needed a field glass to see the
history makers behind them." The private's impressions of war, formed
in the teeth of musketry, may be of less value to accurate history
than the view from the the epaulette quarter, but for dramatic
purposes the foot soldier's story is best, as Mr Kirkland proves by
his success with a military novel.--_Kingston (N. Y.) Freeman._
I read the story at one sitting, and morning found me closing the
volume. You have written a true book. That intimate image of certain
phases of the Civil War, which the mind's eye of the soldier alone
retains, and which, already dimmed by years, would soon have been
blotted forever, has been caught and fixed in literature.--_Major
Henry A. Huntington._
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