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Excerpt from Brothers for Ever, Vol. 12: The Age of Union, 1854-1868
Brought forth in war, the American Union was cemented and bound together at a cost of human blood and tears that has left it one of the most precious of human possessions. Few now, alas! recall the dark days when the God of Battles meted forth His dreadful judgments on the land that had sinned through slavery, when the scales tipped Southward and then Northward as vast armies of marching men met and crashed in victory or defeat.
It is not the purpose of this book to bring again to mind the dreadful suffering of those days, nor yet to gloss over the self-sacrifice of the two contending forces, both struggling for what to them was almost as sacred as salvation. Those who fought so gallantly have long since laid aside all the rancor and bitterness which such strife engenders, and have settled into a brotherhood of peaceful endeavor which is not to be shaken again. But it is needful that the spirit of 'Sixty-One, no less than the spirit of 'Seventy-Six, be kept alive in the land, that so priceless an inheritance as national integrity may be handed on to future generations, unsullied and secure.
It is not for the historian to judge between the contending parties in a strife that called forth the finest qualities of humankind. Yet, in a work like this, where romantic characters, fully typical of their time, march side by side with the great names which South and North combine in revering, it is possible to present, as no mere formal historian can, the sentiments of those whose lives were placed at the service of the cause they knew to be right.
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